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Multi-Domain Balanced Sampling Improves Out-of-Distribution Generalization of Chest X-ray Pathology Prediction Models
Enoch Tetteh · David Krueger · Joseph Paul Cohen · Yoshua Bengio

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Learning models that generalize under different distribution shifts in medical imaging has been a long-standing research challenge. There have been several proposals for efficient and robust visual representation learning among vision research practitioners, especially in the sensitive and critical biomedical domain. In this paper, we propose an idea for out-of-distribution generalization of chest X-ray pathologies that uses a simple balanced batch sampling technique.
We observed that balanced sampling between the multiple training datasets improves the performance over baseline models trained without balancing. Code for this work is available on GitHub at https://github.com/etetteh/OoDGen-ChestXray.

Author Information

Enoch Tetteh (Mila - Quebec AI Institute)

I apply language and vision models to biomedical data for O.O.D generalization. Currently, supervised by Yoshua Bengio as an intern at MILA.

David Krueger (University of Montreal)
Joseph Paul Cohen (Mila, University of Montreal)

Joseph Paul Cohen is a researcher and pragmatic engineer. He currently focuses on the challenges in deploying AI tools in medicine specifically computer vision and genomics. He maintains many open source projects including Chester the AI radiology assistant, TorchXRayVision, and BlindTool – a mobile vision aid app. He is the director of the Institute for Reproducible Research, a US non-profit which operates ShortScience.org and Academic Torrents.

Yoshua Bengio (Mila / U. Montreal)

Yoshua Bengio is Full Professor in the computer science and operations research department at U. Montreal, scientific director and founder of Mila and of IVADO, Turing Award 2018 recipient, Canada Research Chair in Statistical Learning Algorithms, as well as a Canada AI CIFAR Chair. He pioneered deep learning and has been getting the most citations per day in 2018 among all computer scientists, worldwide. He is an officer of the Order of Canada, member of the Royal Society of Canada, was awarded the Killam Prize, the Marie-Victorin Prize and the Radio-Canada Scientist of the year in 2017, and he is a member of the NeurIPS advisory board and co-founder of the ICLR conference, as well as program director of the CIFAR program on Learning in Machines and Brains. His goal is to contribute to uncover the principles giving rise to intelligence through learning, as well as favour the development of AI for the benefit of all.

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