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TECHNIQUE FOR CONCEPT AND STYLE PRE-TRAINING FOR A PERCEPTION TASK

Publication EP4712046A1 Kind: A1 Mar 18, 2026

Applicants

Siemens Healthineers AG

Inventors

Serban, Alexandru Constantin, Passerini, Tiziano, Ciusdel, Costin Florian

Abstract

The invention relates to a technique for pre-training a principal encoder and a concept head. A method comprises receiving, at a principal encoder (302), a medical image (502) and processing it for obtaining a principal latent representation (504), which is provided to a concept head (306) and to a style head (310) to obtain a first vector of discretized anatomical concepts and an associated further first vector of continuous styles per discretized anatomical concept in the medical image (502), respectively. An auxiliary feature decoder determines, based on the obtained first vector of discretized anatomical concepts, an auxiliary latent representation (10), based on which an auxiliary image decoder (316) performs a reconstruction (512) of the medical image (502). The principal encoder (302) and concept head (306) are pre-trained based a reconstruction loss between the received medical image (502) and the first reconstruction (512).

IPC Classifications

G06V 10/82 20220101AFI20251006BHEP G06N 3/0455 20230101ALI20251006BHEP

Designated States

AL, AT, BE, BG, CH, CY, CZ, DE, DK, EE, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, HR, HU, IE, IS, IT, LI, LT, LU, LV, MC, ME, MK, MT, NL, NO, PL, PT, RO, RS, SE, SI, SK, SM, TR