Add ConvNeXt model architecture

[mattwarkentin]

Hi,

Is there any interest in adding the ConvNeXt architecture to MONAI? It is a modern version of a ConvNet using current best practices based on this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.03545.

The code for ConvNeXt are available here: https://github.com/facebookresearch/ConvNeXt

If there is interest, I can look into contributing a PR for this architecture.

[wyli]

thanks for raising this, it's a useful feature request and welcome your contributions! I think from monai's perspective we can add value to it by supporting both 2d and 3d, and making use of existing monai network layers/blocks whenever possible.

[mattwarkentin]

Thanks for the response, @wyli. I definitely agree with you about how this should fit within MONAI. I will begin working on a PR, but it might take a few weeks as I will be travelling for work.

[AnushreeDhar]

This is so great thanks for taking up this feature request. I was hoping for this model to use with MONAI and voila there's a plan in this

[hw-ju]

Looking forward to it!

[annawoodard]

An update has recently come out which looks even more promising: benchmarks and code

[ibro45]

Hi, any plans on adding this yet?

[ibro45]

https://github.com/MIC-DKFZ/MedNeXt#mednext-v1