Cross-Adversarial Local Distribution regularization for semi-supervised medical image segmentation

Thanh Nguyen-Duc, Trung Le, Roland Bammer, He Zhao, Jianfei Cai, Dinh Phung

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Abstract

Medical semi-supervised segmentation is a technique where a model is trained to segment objects of interest in medical images with limited annotated data. Existing semi-supervised segmentation methods are usually based on the smoothness assumption. This assumption implies that the model output distributions of two similar data samples are encouraged to be invariant. In other words, the smoothness assumption states that similar samples (e.g., adding small perturbations to an image) should have similar outputs. In this paper, we introduce a novel cross-adversarial local distribution (Cross-ALD) regularization to further enhance the smoothness assumption for semi-supervised medical image segmentation task. We conducted comprehensive experiments that the Cross-ALD archives state-of-the-art performance against many recent methods on the public LA and ACDC datasets.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMedical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention – 26th International Conference Vancouver, BC, Canada, October 8–12, 2023 Proceedings, Part I
EditorsHayit Greenspan, Anant Madabhushi, Parvin Mousavi, Septimiu Salcudean, James Duncan, Tanveer Syeda-Mahmood, Russell Taylor
Place of PublicationCham Switzerland
PublisherSpringer
Pages183-194
Number of pages12
ISBN (Electronic)9783031439070
ISBN (Print)9783031439063
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2023
EventMedical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention 2023 - Vancouver, Canada
Duration: 8 Oct 202312 Oct 2023
Conference number: 26th
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-43901-8 (Proceedings)
https://conferences.miccai.org/2023/en/ (Website)

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science
PublisherSpringer
Volume14220
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

ConferenceMedical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention 2023
Abbreviated titleMICCAI 2023
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityVancouver
Period8/10/2312/10/23
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Keywords

  • Adversarial examples
  • Adversarial local distribution
  • Cross-adversarial local distribution
  • Semi-supervised segmentation

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