Title
No New-Net.
Abstract
In this paper we demonstrate the effectiveness of a well trained U-Net in the context of the BraTS 2018 challenge. This endeavour is particularly interesting given that researchers are currently besting each other with architectural modifications that are intended to improve the segmentation performance. We instead focus on the training process arguing that a well trained U-Net is hard to beat. Our baseline U-Net, which has only minor modifications and is trained with a large patch size and a Dice loss function indeed achieved competitive Dice scores on the BraTS2018 validation data. By incorporating additional measures such as region based training, additional training data, a simple postprocessing technique and a combination of loss functions, we obtain Dice scores of 77.88, 87.81 and 80.62, and Hausdorff Distances (95th percentile) of 2.90, 6.03 and 5.08 for the enhancing tumor, whole tumor and tumor core, respectively on the test data. This setup achieved rank two in BraTS2018, with more than 60 teams participating in the challenge.
Year
Venue
DocType
2018
CoRR
Conference
Volume
Citations 
PageRank 
abs/1809.10483
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Fabian Isensee101.01
Philipp Kickingereder2132.01
Wolfgang Wick3234.24
Martin Bendszus4736.73
Klaus H. Maier-Hein536142.06