Preprint
Sep 2026
Which Pretext Task Transfers? Self-Supervised Pretraining Objectives for Lung Ultrasound
Self-supervised learning (SSL) can reduce the need for labelled medical images, but the choice of pretext objective remains unclear for lung ultrasound (LUS). Contrastive learning, masked reconstruction, and joint-embedding predictive architectures (JEPA) differ in the space in which their targets are defined, yet exis...
Moein Heidari, J. Rao, Jai Choraria et al.
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