Representing Part-Whole Hierarchies in Foundation Models by Learning Localizability, Composability, and Decomposability from Anatomy via Self-Supervision

Mohammad Reza Hosseinzadeh Taher, Michael B. Gotway, Jianming Liang

Humans effortlessly interpret images by parsing them into part-whole hierarchies; deep learning excels in learning multi-level feature spaces, but they often lack explicit coding o…