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HybridMIM: A Hybrid Masked Image Modeling Framework for 3D Medical Image Segmentation
Zhaohu Xing, Lei Zhu, Lequan Yu, Zhiheng Xing, Liang Wan
Masked image modeling (MIM) with transformer backbones has recently been exploited as a powerful self-supervised pre-training technique. The existing MIM methods adopt the strategy to mask random patches of the image and reconstruct the missing pixels, which only considers semantic information at a lower level, and causes a long pre-training time.This paper presents HybridMIM, a novel hybrid self-supervised learning method based on masked image modeling for 3D medical image segmentation.Specifically, we design a two-level masking hierarchy to specify which and how patches in sub-volumes are masked, effectively providing the constraints of higher level semantic information. Then we learn the semantic information of medical images at three levels, including:1) partial region prediction to reconstruct key contents of the 3D image, which largely reduces the pre-training time burden (pixel-level); 2) patch-masking perception to learn the spatial relationship between the patches in each sub-volume (region-level).and 3) drop-out-based contrastive learning between samples within a mini-batch, which further improves the generalization ability of the framework (sample-level). The proposed framework is versatile to support both CNN and transformer as encoder backbones, and also enables to pre-train decoders for image segmentation. We conduct comprehensive experiments on four widely-used public medical image segmentation datasets, including BraTS2020, BTCV, MSD Liver, and MSD Spleen. The experimental results show the clear superiority of HybridMIM against competing supervised methods, masked pre-training approaches, and other self-supervised methods, in terms of quantitative metrics, timing performance and qualitative observations. The codes of HybridMIM are available at https://github.com/ge-xing/HybridMIM
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