Domain- and task-specific transfer learning for medical segmentation tasks.

Journal: Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
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Abstract

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Transfer learning is a valuable approach to perform medical image segmentation in settings with limited cases available for training convolutional neural networks (CNN). Both the source task and the source domain influence transfer learning performance on a given target medical image segmentation task. This study aims to assess transfer learning-based medical segmentation task performance for various source task and domain combinations.

Authors

  • Riaan Zoetmulder
    Biomedical Engineering and Physics, Amsterdam UMC, Location AMC, Meibergdreef 15, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, the Netherlands; University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098 XH Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Electronic address: r.zoetmulder@amsterdamumc.nl.
  • Efstratios Gavves
    QUVA Deep Vision Lab University of Amsterdam The Netherlands.
  • Matthan Caan
    Biomedical Engineering and Physics, Amsterdam UMC, Location AMC, Meibergdreef 15, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
  • Henk Marquering
    Biomedical Engineering and Physics, Amsterdam UMC, Location AMC, Meibergdreef 15, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, Amsterdam UMC, Location AMC, Meibergdreef 15, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, the Netherlands.