Improving Radiography Machine Learning Workflows via Metadata Management for Training Data Selection
This is an incremental improvement for researchers in physical sciences, specifically radiography, to enhance workflow efficiency.
The paper tackled the challenge of managing complex machine learning workflows in dynamic radiography by developing a metadata management tool, which reduced redundant work and improved reproducibility in training data selection.
Most machine learning models require many iterations of hyper-parameter tuning, feature engineering, and debugging to produce effective results. As machine learning models become more complicated, this pipeline becomes more difficult to manage effectively. In the physical sciences, there is an ever-increasing pool of metadata that is generated by the scientific research cycle. Tracking this metadata can reduce redundant work, improve reproducibility, and aid in the feature and training dataset engineering process. In this case study, we present a tool for machine learning metadata management in dynamic radiography. We evaluate the efficacy of this tool against the initial research workflow and discuss extensions to general machine learning pipelines in the physical sciences.