Title
GradMask: Reduce Overfitting by Regularizing Saliency.
Abstract
With too few samples or too many model parameters, overfitting can inhibit the ability to generalise predictions to new data. Within medical imaging, this can occur when features are incorrectly assigned importance such as distinct hospital specific artifacts, leading to poor performance on a new dataset from a different institution without those features, which is undesirable. Most regularization methods do not explicitly penalize the incorrect association of these features to the target class and hence fail to address this issue. We propose a regularization method, GradMask, which penalizes saliency maps inferred from the classifier gradients when they are not consistent with the lesion segmentation. This prevents non-tumor related features to contribute to the classification of unhealthy samples. We demonstrate that this method can improve test accuracy between 1-3% compared to the baseline without GradMask, showing that it has an impact on reducing overfitting.
Year
Venue
DocType
2019
CoRR
Journal
Volume
Citations 
PageRank 
abs/1904.07478
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Becks Simpson101.01
Francis Dutil2636.45
Yoshua Bengio3426773039.83
Joseph Paul Cohen45213.09