Swipes For Science

Anisha Keshavan

Research Scientist, Child Mind Institute

Affiliate @ UW eScience Institute

Healthy Brain Network

10,000 MRI scans

Why not algorithms?

45 MPH

STOP!

We should work together

Algorithms

  • fast
  • sometimes stupid
  • needs lots of data to learn

Humans

  • slow
  • sometimes smart
  • learn from sparse data

Braindr

Brain Data Review

braindr.us

Keshavan, Anisha, Jason Yeatman, and Ariel Rokem. "Combining citizen science and deep learning to amplify expertise in neuroimaging." bioRxiv (2018): 363382. (under review)

Instructions

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Win Prizes

Many Ratings

But often, no agreement

Fail

Pass

Need to "down-weight" some raters

image id rater 0 rater 1
1 0 1
2 1 -
Expert
1
0

each rater is a feature

each image

is a sample

missing data

Rater importance vs # ratings

Corrected Ratings

Predict image quality

> 100,000 ratings
> 400 users
0.99 AUC = near perfect

Thanks eLife Innovation!

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