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Self-supervised Modelling of Neuroimaging Data

A summer-school project comparing self-supervised and supervised models for MRI motion-artefact detection.

Hawkes Institute Summer School

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Hawkes Institute Summer School
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This teaching session set out a four-day project on detecting synthetic motion artefacts in brain MRI. Philipp Goebl and Arman Eshaghi framed it as a direct comparison between a fine-tuned self-supervised classifier and a supervised baseline.

The question

Does self-supervised pretraining improve motion-artefact classification when compared with a supervised model on the same task?

Deck outline

  • Classifying brain MRI as good or bad, with uncertainty
  • Generating ground-truth examples of synthetic motion artefacts
  • Self-supervised pretraining with MONAI
  • Fine-tuning the pretrained model for classification
  • Training a supervised comparison model
  • Comparing performance and presenting the results

Take-away

The exercise treats self-supervision as a testable modelling choice: keep the task fixed, then compare performance and uncertainty.

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  1. Slide 01

    Self supervised modelling of neuroimaging data

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    Philipp Goebl, Arman Eshaghi

    30 June 2025

  2. Slide 03

    Problem

    Slide 3: ProblemOpen full-size slide

    Detecting synthetic motion artefacts on brain MRIs

    • Model output: Good vs bad with classification uncertainty

    Compare fine tuned self supervised classifier vs a supervised classifier

    Questions:

    • How does self supervised modelling improve performance?
    • What are the main advantages of self supervised modelling?
  3. Slide 04

    Project outline

    Slide 4: Project outlineOpen full-size slide

    Day 1

    • Data download and preparation
    • Task definition and delegation

    Day 2

    • Ground truth data generation
    • Self supervised model training (Use MONAI tutorials)

    Day 3

    • Fine tuning self supervised model for classification
    • Classification model training
    • Performance comparison

    Day 4

    Preparing results and presentation