Towards Visual Question Answering on Pathology Images
Xuehai He, Zhuo Cai, Wenlan Wei, Yichen Zhang, Luntian Mou, Eric Xing, Pengtao Xie
Abstract
Pathology imaging is broadly used for identifying the causes and effects of diseases or injuries. Given a pathology image, being able to answer questions about the clinical findings contained in the image is very important for medical decision making. In this paper, we aim to develop a pathological visual question answering framework to analyze pathology images and answer medical questions related to these images. To build such a framework, we create PathVQA, a VQA dataset with 32,795 questions asked from 4,998 pathology images. We also propose a three-level optimization framework which performs self-supervised pretraining and VQA finetuning end-to-end to learn powerful visual and textual representations jointly and automatically identifies and excludes noisy self-supervised examples from pretraining. We perform experiments on our created PathVQA dataset and the results demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed methods. The datasets and code are available at https://github.com/UCSD-AI4H/PathVQA
BibTeX
@inproceedings{he-etal-2021-towards,
title = "Towards Visual Question Answering on Pathology Images",
author = "He, Xuehai and
Cai, Zhuo and
Wei, Wenlan and
Zhang, Yichen and
Mou, Luntian and
Xing, Eric and
Xie, Pengtao",
editor = "Zong, Chengqing and
Xia, Fei and
Li, Wenjie and
Navigli, Roberto",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 2: Short Papers)",
month = aug,
year = "2021",
address = "Online",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-short.90/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2021.acl-short.90",
pages = "708--718"
}