The Greater Paris University Hospitals Data Warehouse (EDS AP-HP) contains multimodal clinical data (PMSI, imaging, biological, and clinical documents) for over 14 million patients. The ANR FM2AI projet proposes to leverage 50,000 real-world clinical 3D CT scans from this exceptional data resource, to deploy a novel foundation model for abdominal-pelvic CT Imaging. The approach is designed to generalize across multiple clinical applications involving abdominal CT images, by resorting to self-supervised learning techniques for training the
foundation model, and then exploiting it for a wide class of clinical queries thanks to the innovative
few-shot learning paradigm [1], while paying attention to robustness assessment.
In this context, we are seeking for a PhD candidate with an excellent background in AI and mathematics, to design robust few-shot learning methods to allow the on-site adaptation of the foundation model and generalization to specific diagnostic tasks, such as prediction and segmentation of CT images of all body regions, without requiring massive re-annotation efforts nor GPU resources. The work will build upon the expertise of the OPIS team on few-short learning [2,3,4,5].
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Transductive minimum description length inference, Proc. the Int. Conf. on Neu. Inf. Proc. Sys. (NeurIPS), 2022.
[3] S. Martin, Y. Huang, F. Shakeri, J.-C. Pesquet, I. Ben Ayed, Transductive zero-shot and few-shot CLIP, IEEE
/ CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), 2024.
[4] L. Zhou, F. Shakeri, A. Sadraoui, M. Kaaniche, J.-C. Pesquet, I. Ben Ayed, UNEM: UNrolled Generalized EM
for Transductive Few-Shot Learning, IEEE/CVF Conf. on Comp. Vision and Patt. Recognition (CVPR), 2025.
[5] M. Vu, E. Chouzenoux, J.-C. Pesquet, I. Ben-Ayed. Aggregated f-average Neural Network applied to Few-
Shot Class Incremental Learning, vol. 237, pp. 110054, Signal Processing, 2025.