28 research outputs found
ReSup: Reliable Label Noise Suppression for Facial Expression Recognition
Because of the ambiguous and subjective property of the facial expression
recognition (FER) task, the label noise is widely existing in the FER dataset.
For this problem, in the training phase, current FER methods often directly
predict whether the label of the input image is noised or not, aiming to reduce
the contribution of the noised data in training. However, we argue that this
kind of method suffers from the low reliability of such noise data decision
operation. It makes that some mistakenly abounded clean data are not utilized
sufficiently and some mistakenly kept noised data disturbing the model learning
process. In this paper, we propose a more reliable noise-label suppression
method called ReSup (Reliable label noise Suppression for FER). First, instead
of directly predicting noised or not, ReSup makes the noise data decision by
modeling the distribution of noise and clean labels simultaneously according to
the disagreement between the prediction and the target. Specifically, to
achieve optimal distribution modeling, ReSup models the similarity distribution
of all samples. To further enhance the reliability of our noise decision
results, ReSup uses two networks to jointly achieve noise suppression.
Specifically, ReSup utilize the property that two networks are less likely to
make the same mistakes, making two networks swap decisions and tending to trust
decisions with high agreement. Extensive experiments on three popular
benchmarks show that the proposed method significantly outperforms
state-of-the-art noisy label FER methods by 3.01% on FERPlus becnmarks. Code:
https://github.com/purpleleaves007/FERDenois
CDDSA: Contrastive Domain Disentanglement and Style Augmentation for Generalizable Medical Image Segmentation
Generalization to previously unseen images with potential domain shifts and
different styles is essential for clinically applicable medical image
segmentation, and the ability to disentangle domain-specific and
domain-invariant features is key for achieving Domain Generalization (DG).
However, existing DG methods can hardly achieve effective disentanglement to
get high generalizability. To deal with this problem, we propose an efficient
Contrastive Domain Disentanglement and Style Augmentation (CDDSA) framework for
generalizable medical image segmentation. First, a disentangle network is
proposed to decompose an image into a domain-invariant anatomical
representation and a domain-specific style code, where the former is sent to a
segmentation model that is not affected by the domain shift, and the
disentangle network is regularized by a decoder that combines the anatomical
and style codes to reconstruct the input image. Second, to achieve better
disentanglement, a contrastive loss is proposed to encourage the style codes
from the same domain and different domains to be compact and divergent,
respectively. Thirdly, to further improve generalizability, we propose a style
augmentation method based on the disentanglement representation to synthesize
images in various unseen styles with shared anatomical structures. Our method
was validated on a public multi-site fundus image dataset for optic cup and
disc segmentation and an in-house multi-site Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Magnetic
Resonance Image (NPC-MRI) dataset for nasopharynx Gross Tumor Volume (GTVnx)
segmentation. Experimental results showed that the proposed CDDSA achieved
remarkable generalizability across different domains, and it outperformed
several state-of-the-art methods in domain-generalizable segmentation.Comment: 14 pages, 8 figure
A Comprehensive Survey on Deep Graph Representation Learning
Graph representation learning aims to effectively encode high-dimensional
sparse graph-structured data into low-dimensional dense vectors, which is a
fundamental task that has been widely studied in a range of fields, including
machine learning and data mining. Classic graph embedding methods follow the
basic idea that the embedding vectors of interconnected nodes in the graph can
still maintain a relatively close distance, thereby preserving the structural
information between the nodes in the graph. However, this is sub-optimal due
to: (i) traditional methods have limited model capacity which limits the
learning performance; (ii) existing techniques typically rely on unsupervised
learning strategies and fail to couple with the latest learning paradigms;
(iii) representation learning and downstream tasks are dependent on each other
which should be jointly enhanced. With the remarkable success of deep learning,
deep graph representation learning has shown great potential and advantages
over shallow (traditional) methods, there exist a large number of deep graph
representation learning techniques have been proposed in the past decade,
especially graph neural networks. In this survey, we conduct a comprehensive
survey on current deep graph representation learning algorithms by proposing a
new taxonomy of existing state-of-the-art literature. Specifically, we
systematically summarize the essential components of graph representation
learning and categorize existing approaches by the ways of graph neural network
architectures and the most recent advanced learning paradigms. Moreover, this
survey also provides the practical and promising applications of deep graph
representation learning. Last but not least, we state new perspectives and
suggest challenging directions which deserve further investigations in the
future
Disorder in Mn+1AXn phases at the atomic scale.
Atomic disordering in materials alters their physical and chemical properties and can subsequently affect their performance. In complex ceramic materials, it is a challenge to understand the nature of structural disordering, due to the difficulty of direct, atomic-scale experimental observations. Here we report the direct imaging of ion irradiation-induced antisite defects in Mn+1AXn phases using double CS-corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy and provide compelling evidence of order-to-disorder phase transformations, overturning the conventional view that irradiation causes phase decomposition to binary fcc-structured Mn+1Xn. With the formation of uniformly distributed cation antisite defects and the rearrangement of X anions, disordered solid solution Îł-(Mn+1A)Xn phases are formed at low ion fluences, followed by gradual transitions to solid solution fcc-structured (Mn+1A)Xn phases. This study provides a comprehensive understanding of the order-to-disorder transformations in Mn+1AXn phases and proposes a method for the synthesis of new solid solution (Mn+1A)Xn phases by tailoring the disorder
Examining the generalizability of research findings from archival data
This initiative examined systematically the extent to which a large set of archival research findings generalizes across contexts. We repeated the key analyses for 29 original strategic management effects in the same context (direct reproduction) as well as in 52 novel time periods and geographies; 45% of the reproductions returned results matching the original reports together with 55% of tests in different spans of years and 40% of tests in novel geographies. Some original findings were associated with multiple new tests. Reproducibility was the best predictor of generalizability—for the findings that proved directly reproducible, 84% emerged in other available time periods and 57% emerged in other geographies. Overall, only limited empirical evidence emerged for context sensitivity. In a forecasting survey, independent scientists were able to anticipate which effects would find support in tests in new samples
Would you choose to be a psychiatrist again? A large-sample nationwide survey of psychiatrists and psychiatry residents in China
Abstract Background The mental health workforce sustainability in China suffers high rates of attrition and the intention to leave. Among current professionals, the intention to choose the same career is an interesting way to gauge their job satisfaction and other factors, and it may affect the career choices of younger generations. We aimed to survey the intention of psychiatrists and psychiatry residents to choose the same career if they could start over and to identify associated factors. Methods We conducted an anonymous survey of psychiatrists in 41 tertiary psychiatric hospitals in China. We collected demographic data, work-related information, the sense of professional identity, job satisfaction, and burnout (Maslach Burnout Inventory), and we specifically asked each participant whether they would choose to be a psychiatrist again if they could. Results Among 3,783 psychiatrists we surveyed, one-quarter responded that they would not choose to be a psychiatrist again if they had a choice, with less than half (47.2%) saying they would. Those who would not choose psychiatry again were more likely to have a negative (relative to positive) professional identity (OR = 7.47, P<0.001, 95%CI: 4.587–12.164); experience job burnout (OR = 2.945, P<0.001, 95%CI: 2.356–3.681); be dissatisfied with their job (OR = 2.739, P<0.001, 95%CI: 2.102–3.569) and excessive regulation (OR = 1.819, P<0.001, 95%CI: 1.487–2.226); have a heavy workload (OR = 1.749, P<0.001, 95%CI: 1.423–2.149) or a lower income (OR = 1.748, P<0.001, 95%CI: 1.415–2.161); be married (relative to single) (OR = 1.604, P = 0.004, 95%CI: 1.165–2.208); be dissatisfied with strained doctor-patient relationship (OR = 1.333, P = 0.005, 95%CI: 1.089–1.632); have more night shifts per month (OR = 1.055, P = 0.021, 95%CI: 1.008–1.104) or work longer hours per week (OR = 1.016, P = 0.001, 95%CI: 1.006–1.025). Conclusion Among psychiatrists in tertiary hospitals in China, those with a heavier workload, poor sense of professional identity, job dissatisfaction, and burnout were less likely to choose psychiatry again. Policymakers and hospital administrators need to take effective measures to improve psychiatrists’ sense of professional identity and increase their intention to stay