Title
Federated Contrastive Learning for Decentralized Unlabeled Medical Images
Abstract
A label-efficient paradigm in computer vision is based on self-supervised contrastive pre-training on unlabeled data followed by fine-tuning with a small number of labels. Making practical use of a federated computing environment in the clinical domain and learning on medical images poses specific challenges. In this work, we propose FedMoCo, a robust federated contrastive learning (FCL) framework, which makes efficient use of decentralized unlabeled medical data. FedMoCo has two novel modules: metadata transfer, an inter-node statistical data augmentation module, and self-adaptive aggregation, an aggregation module based on representational similarity analysis. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first FCL work on medical images. Our experiments show that FedMoCo can consistently outperform FedAvg, a seminal federated learning framework, in extracting meaningful representations for downstream tasks. We further show that FedMoCo can substantially reduce the amount of labeled data required in a downstream task, such as COVID-19 detection, to achieve a reasonable performance.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1007/978-3-030-87199-4_36
MEDICAL IMAGE COMPUTING AND COMPUTER ASSISTED INTERVENTION - MICCAI 2021, PT III
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Federated learning, Contrastive representation learning
Conference
12903
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0302-9743
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nanqing Dong1263.53
Irina Voiculescu2469.59