A segment anything model-guided and match-based semi-supervised segmentation framework for medical imaging.

Journal: Medical physics
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Semi-supervised segmentation leverages sparse annotation information to learn rich representations from combined labeled and label-less data for segmentation tasks. The Match-based framework, by using the consistency constraint of segmentation results from different models/augmented label-less inputs, is found effective in semi-supervised learning. This approach, however, is challenged by the low quality of pseudo-labels generated as intermediate products for training the network, due to the lack of the ''ground-truth'' reference.

Authors

  • Guoping Xu
    School of Computer Sciences and Engineering, Wuhan Institute of Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China.
  • Xiaoxue Qian
    Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA.
  • Hua-Chieh Shao
    Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA.
  • Jax Luo
    Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States.
  • Weiguo Lu
    Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States of America.
  • You Zhang
    Medical Artificial Intelligence and Automation (MAIA) Laboratory, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, 75390, USA.