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ArticleProceedings. IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition2021

Metadata Normalization.

Mandy Lu, Qingyu Zhao, Jiequan Zhang, Kilian M Pohl, Li Fei-Fei, Juan Carlos Niebles, Ehsan Adeli

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Article in Proceedings. IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Latent Causal Modeling for 3D Brain MRI Counterfactuals.Deep generative models : 5th MICCAI workshop, DGM4MICCAI 2025, held in conjunction with MICCAI 2025, Daejeon, South Korea, September 23, 2025, Proceedings. DGM4MICCAI (Workshop) (5th : 2025 : Taejon-si, Korea) · 2026
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  2. Confounder-Free Continual Learning via Recursive Feature Normalization.Proceedings of machine learning research · 2025
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  5. A Penalty Approach for Normalizing Feature Distributions to Build Confounder-Free Models.Medical image computing and computer-assisted intervention : MICCAI ... International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Mandy LuStanford University, Stanford, CA 94305.
Qingyu ZhaoStanford University, Stanford, CA 94305.
Jiequan ZhangStanford University, Stanford, CA 94305.
Kilian M PohlStanford University, Stanford, CA 94305.
Li Fei-FeiStanford University, Stanford, CA 94305.
Juan Carlos NieblesStanford University, Stanford, CA 94305.
Ehsan AdeliStanford University, Stanford, CA 94305.

Funding

TRACKING HIV INFECTION AND ALCOHOL ABUSE CNS COMORBIDITY WITH NEUROIMAGINGU01AA017347 · NIAAA · SRI INTERNATIONAL · PI PFEFFERBAUM, ADOLF, SULLIVAN, EDITH VIONI · 2007 to 2021
$16.0M
Machine learning to distinguish HAND from Alzheimer's disease in HIV over age 60R01MH113406 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI POHL, KILIAN MARIA, VALCOUR, VICTOR · 2017 to 2021
$5.5M
Tracking HIV Infection & Alcohol Abuse CNS Comorbidity with NeuroimagingR01AA017347 · NIAAA · SRI INTERNATIONAL · PI Adolf Pfefferbaum · 2022 to 2026
$5.2M
Midcareer Mentoring Award for Patient-Oriented Research in HIV and CognitionK24MH098759 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI VALCOUR, VICTOR · 2013 to 2017
$887k
NIAAA NIH HHS R01 AA017347NIAAA NIH HHS U01 AA017347NIMH NIH HHS K24 MH098759NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH113406
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Batch Normalization (BN) and its variants have delivered tremendous success in combating the covariate shift induced by the training step of deep learning methods. While these techniques normalize feature distributions by standardizing with batch statistics, they do not correct the influence on features from extraneous variables or multiple distributions. Such extra variables, referred to as metadata here, may create bias or confounding effects (e.g., race when classifying gender from face images). We introduce the Metadata Normalization (MDN) layer, a new batch-level operation which can be used end-to-end within the training framework, to correct the influence of metadata on feature distributions. MDN adopts a regression analysis technique traditionally used for preprocessing to remove (regress out) the metadata effects on model features during training. We utilize a metric based on distance correlation to quantify the distribution bias from the metadata and demonstrate that our method successfully removes metadata effects on four diverse settings: one synthetic, one 2D image, one video, and one 3D medical image dataset.

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PMID34776724
PMCPMC8589298

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