{
  "id": 342772,
  "title": "Does Downscaling Affect Performance?",
  "url": "/competitions/mayo-clinic-strip-ai/discussion/342772",
  "author_name": "Aaditya Agnihotri",
  "post_date": "2022-08-08T17:11:03.456000",
  "votes": 0,
  "comment_count": 2,
  "views": 0,
  "content": "<p>Hi everyone! I just wanted to ask whether anyone knows if downscaling the images would be detrimental to model performance? (I rescaled the images to 512*512)</p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": 1890715,
      "postDate": "2022-08-09T02:38:18.463Z",
      "content": "<p>Since the images' aspect ratios vary so drastically, I would imaging rescaling them all to 512x512 squares would distort them enough to impact model performance. Have you tried scaling them in a way that preserves aspect ratio?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Since the images' aspect ratios vary so drastically, I would imaging rescaling them all to 512x512 squares would distort them enough to impact model performance. Have you tried scaling them in a way that preserves aspect ratio?",
      "votes": 4,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 1891907,
          "postDate": "2022-08-09T18:15:20.360Z",
          "content": "<p>Thats a fair point. I'm a total beginner at this so those questions don't really appear naturally to me yet, so thanks a lot. Do you have any suggestions for methods of accomplishing this? That would be much appreciated thank you!</p>",
          "rawMarkdown": "Thats a fair point. I'm a total beginner at this so those questions don't really appear naturally to me yet, so thanks a lot. Do you have any suggestions for methods of accomplishing this? That would be much appreciated thank you!"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 1890332,
      "postDate": "2022-08-08T17:11:03.457Z",
      "content": "<p>Hi everyone! I just wanted to ask whether anyone knows if downscaling the images would be detrimental to model performance? (I rescaled the images to 512*512)</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Hi everyone! I just wanted to ask whether anyone knows if downscaling the images would be detrimental to model performance? (I rescaled the images to 512*512)"
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 1890715,
      "author_name": "Jake Schmidt",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2022-08-09T02:38:18.463000",
      "content": "<p>Since the images' aspect ratios vary so drastically, I would imaging rescaling them all to 512x512 squares would distort them enough to impact model performance. Have you tried scaling them in a way that preserves aspect ratio?</p>",
      "votes": 4,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 1891907,
          "author_name": "Aaditya Agnihotri",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "2022-08-09T18:15:20.360000",
          "content": "<p>Thats a fair point. I'm a total beginner at this so those questions don't really appear naturally to me yet, so thanks a lot. Do you have any suggestions for methods of accomplishing this? That would be much appreciated thank you!</p>",
          "votes": 0,
          "replies": []
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "raw_markdown_by_id": {
    "1890715": "Since the images' aspect ratios vary so drastically, I would imaging rescaling them all to 512x512 squares would distort them enough to impact model performance. Have you tried scaling them in a way that preserves aspect ratio?",
    "1890332": "Hi everyone! I just wanted to ask whether anyone knows if downscaling the images would be detrimental to model performance? (I rescaled the images to 512*512)"
  }
}