no code implementations • 12 Mar 2024 • Blake VanBerlo, Alexander Wong, Jesse Hoey, Robert Arntfield
Guidelines for practitioners were synthesized based on the results, such as the merit of IVPP with task-specific hyperparameters, and the improved performance of contrastive methods for ultrasound compared to non-contrastive counterparts.
no code implementations • 5 Sep 2023 • Blake VanBerlo, Jesse Hoey, Alexander Wong
Self-supervised pretraining has been observed to be effective at improving feature representations for transfer learning, leveraging large amounts of unlabelled data.
no code implementations • 5 Sep 2023 • Blake VanBerlo, Brian Li, Jesse Hoey, Alexander Wong
In this study, we investigated whether self-supervised pretraining could produce a neural network feature extractor applicable to multiple classification tasks in B-mode lung ultrasound analysis.
no code implementations • 5 Apr 2023 • Blake VanBerlo, Brian Li, Alexander Wong, Jesse Hoey, Robert Arntfield
This study investigates the utility of self-supervised pretraining prior to conducting supervised fine-tuning for the downstream task of lung sliding classification in M-mode lung ultrasound images.
no code implementations • 27 Oct 2021 • Zahra Sheikhbahaee, Dongshu Luo, Blake VanBerlo, S. Alex Yun, Adam Safron, Jesse Hoey
One's ability to learn a generative model of the world without supervision depends on the extent to which one can construct abstract knowledge representations that generalize across experiences.
no code implementations • 18 May 2021 • Blake VanBerlo, Matthew A. S. Ross, Daniel Hsia
This study describes an investigation into the modelling of citywide water consumption in London, Canada.
1 code implementation • 12 Sep 2020 • Blake VanBerlo, Matthew A. S. Ross, Jonathan Rivard, Ryan Booker
We introduce a machine learning approach to predict chronic homelessness from de-identified client shelter records drawn from a commonly used Canadian homelessness management information system.
BIG-bench Machine Learning Interpretable Machine Learning +1