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Session Title: Deep Learning with Medical Images (Session 6 of the Certificate Series)
Question 1: Deep learning methods are most effective when applied to large training sets, but in the medical domain large data sets are not always available.
Reference:H. Greenspan, B. van Ginneken and R. M. Summers, "Guest Editorial Deep Learning in Medical Imaging: Overview and Future Promise of an Exciting New Technique," in IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. 35, no. 5, pp. 1153-1159, May 2016.
Choice A:True.
Choice B:False.
Question 2: Transfer learning:
Reference:S. J. Pan and Q. Yang, "A Survey on Transfer Learning," in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, vol. 22, no. 10, pp. 1345-1359, Oct. 2010. doi: 10.1109/TKDE.2009.191
Choice A:Allows information to flow from input to output layers.
Choice B:Only allows transfer knowledge between similar applications and data domains.
Choice C:Can save significant amount of labeling effort.
Choice D:All of the above
Question 3: Medical images are very similar to natural images
Reference:N. Tajbakhsh et al., "Convolutional Neural Networks for Medical Image Analysis: Full Training or Fine Tuning?," in IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. 35, no. 5, pp. 1299-1312, May 2016. doi: 10.1109/TMI.2016.2535302
Choice A:True.
Choice B:False.
Question 4: Training CNN using 2.5D image patches is:
Reference:Roth H.R. et al. (2014) A New 2.5D Representation for Lymph Node Detection Using Random Sets of Deep Convolutional Neural Network Observations. In: Golland P., Hata N., Barillot C., Hornegger J., Howe R. (eds) Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2014. MICCAI 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8673. Springer, Cham.
Choice A:Done by using the center most 3 axial slices.
Choice B:Done by cropping a volume of interest with a margin of 2.5 mm.
Choice C:Done by magnifying image patches 2.5 times.
Choice D:Done by using the axial, coronal and sagittal slices as three image channels.
Question 5: To avoid overfitting:
Reference:Chintan Parmar, Joseph D. Barry, Ahmed Hosny, John Quackenbush and Hugo JWL Aerts Data Analysis Strategies in Medical Imaging, Clin Cancer Res March 26 2018 DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-18-0385.
Choice A:Shallow (or relatively shallow) networks should be preferred if it doesn’t significantly reduce the performance.
Choice B:Dropout or other regularization methods could be used.
Choice C:Data augmentation could be used.
Choice D:All of the above.
Question 6: A U-Net is used for:
Reference:Ronneberger O., Fischer P., Brox T. (2015) U-Net: Convolutional Networks for Biomedical Image Segmentation. In: Navab N., Hornegger J., Wells W., Frangi A. (eds) Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 9351. Springer, Cham
Choice A:Image classification.
Choice B:Image segmentation.
Choice C:All of the above.
Choice D:None of the above.
Question 7: The main advantage of a U-Net over other deep learning networks is:
Reference:Ronneberger O., Fischer P., Brox T. (2015) U-Net: Convolutional Networks for Biomedical Image Segmentation. In: Navab N., Hornegger J., Wells W., Frangi
Choice A:The U-Net doesn’t need a GPU for fast training.
Choice B:The U-Net needs less GPU memory then other deep learning networks.
Choice C:The U-Net can be trained from very few images.
Question 8: What is the Dice Coefficient used for?
Reference:Dice, L.R., 1945. Measures of the amount of ecologic association between species. Ecology, 26(3), pp.297-302
Choice A:To describe the similarity of two samples.
Choice B:To describe the probability of a class.
Choice C:To normalize weights between layers.
Choice D:To normalize the probabilities of the network result.
Question 9: What is data augmentation used for in deep learning?
Reference:Krizhevsky, A., Sutskever, I. and Hinton, G.E., 2012. Imagenet classification with deep convolutional neural networks. In Advances in neural information processing systems (pp. 1097-1105)
Choice A:To reduce the input data to speed up training.
Choice B:To artificially enlarge the image resolution for better results.
Choice C:To compress the input images.
Choice D:To artificially enlarge the dataset to reduce overfitting on image data.
Question 10: What are common methods for data augmentation?
Reference:Krizhevsky, A., Sutskever, I. and Hinton, G.E., 2012. Imagenet classification with deep convolutional neural networks. In Advances in neural information processing systems (pp. 1097-1105)
Choice A:Image rotation.
Choice B:Image flipping.
Choice C:Image translation.
Choice D:Altering color/grey-value intensities of images.
Choice E:All of the above.
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