SiameseOrdinalCLIP: A Language-Guided Siamese Network for the Aesthetic Evaluation of Breast Cancer Locoregional Treatment

Fábio Teixeira, Helena Montenegro, Eduard Bonci, Maria J. Cardoso, Jaime S. Cardoso

Abstract: Breast cancer locoregional treatment includes a wide variety of procedures with diverse aesthetic outcomes. The aesthetic assessment of such procedures is typically subjective, hindering the fair comparison between their outcomes, and consequently restricting evidence-based improvements. Most objective evaluation tools were developed for conservative surgery, focusing on asymmetries while ignoring other relevant traits. To overcome these limitations, we propose SiameseOrdinalCLIP, an ordinal classification network based on image-text matching and pairwise ranking optimisation for the aesthetic evaluation of breast cancer treatment. Furthermore, we integrate a concept bottleneck module into the network for increased explainability. Experiments on a private dataset show that the proposed model surpasses the state-of-the-art aesthetic evaluation and ordinal classification networks.

External IDs:doi:10.1007/978-3-032-05559-0_18