Title
Uncertainty-Aware Training of Neural Networks for Selective Medical Image Segmentation
Abstract
State-of-the-art deep learning based methods have achieved remarkable performance on medical image segmentation. Their applications in the clinical setting are, however, limited due to the lack of trustworthiness and reliability. Selective image segmentation has been proposed to address this issue by letting a DNN model process instances with high confidence while referring difficult ones with high uncertainty to experienced radiologists. As such, the model performance is only affected by the predictions on the high confidence subset rather than the whole dataset. Existing selective segmentation methods, however, ignore this unique property of selective segmentation and train their DNN models by optimizing accuracy on the entire dataset. Motivated by such a discrepancy, we present a novel method in this paper that considers such uncertainty in the training process to maximize the accuracy on the confident subset rather than the accuracy on the whole dataset. Experimental results using the whole heart and great vessel segmentation and gland segmentation show that such a training scheme can significantly improve the performance of selective segmentation.
Year
Venue
DocType
2020
MIDL
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yukun Ding104.73
Jinglan Liu2136.79
Xiaowei Xu313.07
Meiping Huang424.79
Jian Zhuang501.01
Jinjun Xiong602.03
Yiyu Shi755383.22