1. Semi-Supervised Segmentation via Embedding Matching
- Author
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Xie, Weiyi, Willems, Nathalie, Lessmann, Nikolas, Gibbons, Tom, and De Massari, Daniele
- Subjects
Computer Science - Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition ,I.5.4 ,I.4.6 ,I.2.10 - Abstract
Deep convolutional neural networks are widely used in medical image segmentation but require many labeled images for training. Annotating three-dimensional medical images is a time-consuming and costly process. To overcome this limitation, we propose a novel semi-supervised segmentation method that leverages mostly unlabeled images and a small set of labeled images in training. Our approach involves assessing prediction uncertainty to identify reliable predictions on unlabeled voxels from the teacher model. These voxels serve as pseudo-labels for training the student model. In voxels where the teacher model produces unreliable predictions, pseudo-labeling is carried out based on voxel-wise embedding correspondence using reference voxels from labeled images. We applied this method to automate hip bone segmentation in CT images, achieving notable results with just 4 CT scans. The proposed approach yielded a Hausdorff distance with 95th percentile (HD95) of 3.30 and IoU of 0.929, surpassing existing methods achieving HD95 (4.07) and IoU (0.927) at their best., Comment: 13 pages, MIDL2024 oral
- Published
- 2024