LAD: A Hybrid Deep Learning System for Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo Disorders Diagnostic

Herein, we introduce "Look and Diagnose" (LAD), a hybrid deep learning-based system that aims to support doctors in the medical field in diagnosing effectively the Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV) disorder. Given the body postures of the patient in the Dix-Hallpike and lateral head turns test, the visual information of both eyes is captured and fed into LAD for analyzing and classifying into one of six possible disorders the patient might be suffering from. The proposed system consists of two streams: (1) an RNN-based stream that takes raw RGB images of both eyes to extract visual features and optical flow of each eye followed by ternary classification to determine left/right posterior canal (PC) or other; and (2) pupil detector stream that detects the pupil when it is classified as Non-PC and classifies the direction and strength of the beating to categorize the Non-PC types into the remaining four classes: Geotropic BPPV (left and right) and Apogeotropic BPPV (left and right). Experimental results show that with the patient's body postures, the system can accurately classify given BPPV disorder into the six types of disorders with an accuracy of 91% on the validation set. The proposed method can successfully classify disorders with an accuracy of 93% for the Posterior Canal disorder and 95% for the Geotropic and Apogeotropic disorder, paving a potential direction for research with the medical data.

Self-supervised Learning with Local Attention-Aware Feature

In this work, we propose a novel methodology for self-supervised learning for generating global and local attention-aware visual features. Our approach is based on training a model to differentiate between specific image transformations of an input sample and the patched images. Utilizing this approach, the proposed method is able to outperform the previous best competitor by 1.03% on the Tiny-ImageNet dataset and by 2.32% on the STL-10 dataset. Furthermore, our approach outperforms the fully-supervised learning method on the STL-10 dataset. Experimental results and visualizations show the capability of successfully learning global and local attention-aware visual representations.