CUAMT: A MRI semi-supervised medical image segmentation framework based on contextual information and mixed uncertainty.

Journal: Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
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Abstract

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Semi-supervised medical image segmentation is a class of machine learning paradigms for segmentation model training and inference using both labeled and unlabeled medical images, which can effectively reduce the data labeling workload. However, existing consistency semi-supervised segmentation models mainly focus on investigating more complex consistency strategies and lack efficient utilization of volumetric contextual information, which leads to vague or uncertain understanding of the boundary between the object and the background by the model, resulting in ambiguous or even erroneous boundary segmentation results.

Authors

  • Hanguang Xiao
    Chongqing Key Laboratory of Modern Photoelectric Detection Technology and Instrument, School of Optoelectronic Information, Chongqing University of Technology, No. 69 Hongguang Road, Banan District, Chongqing 400050, PR China. Electronic address: simenxiao1211@163.com.
  • Yangjian Wang
    School of Artificial Intelligence, Chongqing University of Technology, Chongqing 401135, China. Electronic address: 52232313142@tu.cqut.edu.cn.
  • Shidong Xiong
    School of Artificial Intelligence, Chongqing University of Technology, Chongqing 401135, China. Electronic address: xsd@stu.cqut.edu.cn.
  • Yanjun Ren
    School of Artificial Intelligence, Chongqing University of Technology, Chongqing 401135, China. Electronic address: vicky_ryj@163.com.
  • Hongmin Zhang
    Department of Elderly Health Management, Shenzhen Center for Chronic Disease Control, No.2021, Buxin Road, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518020, China.