# Metadata Improves Segmentation Through Multitasking Elicitation

Source: [Metadata Improves Segmentation Through Multitasking Elicitation](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa70561e209131cea4a5ed>)

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Authors: Iaroslav Plutenko, Mikhail Papkov, Kaupo Palo, Leopold Parts, Dmytro Fishman

Published: 2023-08-18T09:23:55.000Z

## Abstract

Metainformation is a common companion to biomedical images. However, this potentially powerful additional source of signal from image acquisition has had limited use in deep learning methods, for semantic segmentation in particular. Here, we incorporate metadata by employing a channel modulation mechanism in convolutional networks and study its effect on semantic segmentation tasks. We demonstrate that metadata as additional input to a convolutional network can improve segmentation results while being inexpensive in implementation as a nimble add-on to popular models. We hypothesize that this benefit of metadata can be attributed to facilitating multitask switching. This aspect of metadata-driven systems is explored and discussed in detail.

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## Original sources and implementation

[Original paper](<https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.09411>)

[PDF](<https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.09411.pdf>)