Portrait de Hervé Lombaert

Hervé Lombaert

Membre académique associé
Professeur agrégé, Polytechnique Montréal, Département de génie informatique
Sujets de recherche
Apprentissage automatique médical
Apprentissage sur graphes
Vision par ordinateur

Biographie

Hervé Lombaert est professeur agrégé à Montréal, où il est titulaire d'une Chaire de recherche du Canada sur l’analyse de formes en imagerie médicale. Ses recherches portent sur les statistiques et l'analyse des formes dans le contexte de l'apprentissage automatique et de l'imagerie médicale. Ses travaux sur l'analyse de graphes ont eu une influence sur plusieurs applications en imagerie médicale, depuis les premières segmentations d'images par graph cuts jusqu'aux récentes analyses de surface par théorie de graphes spectraux. Hervé Lombaert est l'auteur de plus de 70 articles. Il détient 5 brevets et a remporté plusieurs prix, dont le prix Erbsmann de l’Information Processing in Medical Imaging (IPMI). Ses étudiant·e·s ont également reçu des prix de la meilleure thèse pour des publications marquantes en imagerie médicale. Il est éditeur associé de Medical Image Analysis. Il a aussi eu la chance de travailler dans plusieurs centres, dont Inria Sophia-Antipolis (France), Microsoft Research (Cambridge, Royaume-Uni), Siemens Corporate Research (Princeton, NJ, É-U), l’Université McGill et Polytechnique Montréal.

Étudiants actuels

Doctorat - Polytechnique
Doctorat - Polytechnique
Superviseur⋅e principal⋅e :
Doctorat - École de technologie suprérieure
Doctorat - Polytechnique

Publications

Sparse Bayesian Networks: Efficient Uncertainty Quantification in Medical Image Analysis
Zeinab Abboud
Samuel Kadoury
Efficiently quantifying predictive uncertainty in medical images remains a challenge. While Bayesian neural networks (BNN) offer predictive … (voir plus)uncertainty, they require substantial computational resources to train. Although Bayesian approximations such as ensembles have shown promise, they still suffer from high training and inference costs. Existing approaches mainly address the costs of BNN inference post-training, with little focus on improving training efficiency and reducing parameter complexity. This study introduces a training procedure for a sparse (partial) Bayesian network. Our method selectively assigns a subset of parameters as Bayesian by assessing their deterministic saliency through gradient sensitivity analysis. The resulting network combines deterministic and Bayesian parameters, exploiting the advantages of both representations to achieve high task-specific performance and minimize predictive uncertainty. Demonstrated on multi-label ChestMNIST for classification and ISIC, LIDC-IDRI for segmentation, our approach achieves competitive performance and predictive uncertainty estimation by reducing Bayesian parameters by over 95\%, significantly reducing computational expenses compared to fully Bayesian and ensemble methods.
Automating MedSAM by Learning Prompts with Weak Few-Shot Supervision
Mélanie Gaillochet
Christian Desrosiers
Neighbor-Aware Calibration of Segmentation Networks with Penalty-Based Constraints
Balamurali Murugesan
Sukesh Adiga Vasudeva
Bingyuan Liu
Ismail Ben Ayed
Jose Dolz
Ensuring reliable confidence scores from deep neural networks is of paramount significance in critical decision-making systems, particularly… (voir plus) in real-world domains such as healthcare. Recent literature on calibrating deep segmentation networks has resulted in substantial progress. Nevertheless, these approaches are strongly inspired by the advancements in classification tasks, and thus their uncertainty is usually modeled by leveraging the information of individual pixels, disregarding the local structure of the object of interest. Indeed, only the recent Spatially Varying Label Smoothing (SVLS) approach considers pixel spatial relationships across classes, by softening the pixel label assignments with a discrete spatial Gaussian kernel. In this work, we first present a constrained optimization perspective of SVLS and demonstrate that it enforces an implicit constraint on soft class proportions of surrounding pixels. Furthermore, our analysis shows that SVLS lacks a mechanism to balance the contribution of the constraint with the primary objective, potentially hindering the optimization process. Based on these observations, we propose NACL (Neighbor Aware CaLibration), a principled and simple solution based on equality constraints on the logit values, which enables to control explicitly both the enforced constraint and the weight of the penalty, offering more flexibility. Comprehensive experiments on a wide variety of well-known segmentation benchmarks demonstrate the superior calibration performance of the proposed approach, without affecting its discriminative power. Furthermore, ablation studies empirically show the model agnostic nature of our approach, which can be used to train a wide span of deep segmentation networks.
Real-time simulation of viscoelastic tissue behavior with physics-guided deep learning
Mohammad Karami
David Rivest‐henault
Medial Spectral Coordinates for 3D Shape Analysis
Morteza Rezanejad
Mohammad Khodadad
Hamidreza Mahyar
Michael Gruninger
Dirk B. Walther
In recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in our community in the shape analysis of 3D objects repre-sented by surface meshes,… (voir plus) their voxelized interiors, or surface point clouds. In part, this interest has been stimulated by the increased availability of RGBD cameras, and by applications of computer vision to autonomous driving, medical imaging, and robotics. In these settings, spectral co-ordinates have shown promise for shape representation due to their ability to incorporate both local and global shape properties in a manner that is qualitatively invariant to iso-metric transformations. Yet, surprisingly, such coordinates have thus far typically considered only local surface positional or derivative information. In the present article, we propose to equip spectral coordinates with medial (object width) information, so as to enrich them. The key idea is to couple surface points that share a medial ball, via the weights of the adjacency matrix. We develop a spectral feature using this idea, and the algorithms to compute it. The incorporation of object width and medial coupling has direct benefits, as illustrated by our experiments on object classification, object part segmentation, and surface point correspondence.
Medial Spectral Coordinates for 3D Shape Analysis
Morteza Rezanejad
Mohammad Khodadad
H. Mahyar
M. Gruninger
Dirk. B. Walther
In recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in our community in the shape analysis of 3D objects repre-sented by surface meshes,… (voir plus) their voxelized interiors, or surface point clouds. In part, this interest has been stimulated by the increased availability of RGBD cameras, and by applications of computer vision to autonomous driving, medical imaging, and robotics. In these settings, spectral co-ordinates have shown promise for shape representation due to their ability to incorporate both local and global shape properties in a manner that is qualitatively invariant to iso-metric transformations. Yet, surprisingly, such coordinates have thus far typically considered only local surface positional or derivative information. In the present article, we propose to equip spectral coordinates with medial (object width) information, so as to enrich them. The key idea is to couple surface points that share a medial ball, via the weights of the adjacency matrix. We develop a spectral feature using this idea, and the algorithms to compute it. The incorporation of object width and medial coupling has direct benefits, as illustrated by our experiments on object classification, object part segmentation, and surface point correspondence.
Medical Imaging with Deep Learning: MIDL 2020 - Short Paper Track
Ismail Ben Ayed
Marleen de Bruijne
Maxime Descoteaux
This compendium gathers all the accepted extended abstracts from the Third International Conference on Medical Imaging with Deep Learning (M… (voir plus)IDL 2020), held in Montreal, Canada, 6-9 July 2020. Note that only accepted extended abstracts are listed here, the Proceedings of the MIDL 2020 Full Paper Track are published in the Proceedings of Machine Learning Research (PMLR).