NEMESIS: Noise-suppressed Efficient MAE with Enhanced Superpatch Integration Strategy
Volumetric CT imaging is essential for clinical diagnosis, yet annotating 3D volumes is expensive and time-consuming, motivating self-supervised learning (SSL) from unlabeled data. However, applying SSL to 3D CT remains challenging due to the high memory cost of full-volume transformers and the anisotropic spatial structure of CT data, which is not well captured by conventional masking strategies. We propose NEMESIS, a masked autoencoder (MAE) framework that operates on local 128x128x128 superpatches, enabling memory-efficient training while preserving anatomical detail. NEMESIS introduces three key components: (i) noise-enhanced reconstruction as a pretext task, (ii) Masked Anatomical Transformer Blocks (MATB) that perform dual-masking through parallel plane-wise and axis-wise token removal, and (iii) NEMESIS Tokens (NT) for cross-scale context aggregation. On the BTCV multi-organ classification benchmark, NEMESIS with a frozen backbone and a linear classifier achieves a mean AUROC of 0.9633, surpassing fully fine-tuned SuPreM (0.9493) and VoCo (0.9387). Under a low-label regime with only 10% of available annotations, it retains an AUROC of 0.9075, demonstrating strong label efficiency. Furthermore, the superpatch-based design reduces computational cost to 31.0 GFLOPs per forward pass, compared to 985.8 GFLOPs for the full-volume baseline, providing a scalable and robust foundation for 3D medical imaging.
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