Differentiable Boundary Point Extraction for Weakly Supervised Star-shaped Object Segmentation

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Although Deep Learning is the new gold standard in medical image segmentation, the annotation burden limits its expansion to clinical practice. We also observe a mismatch between annotations required by deep learning methods designed with pixel-wise optimization in mind and clinically relevant annotations designed for biomarkers extraction (diameters, counts, etc.). Our study proposes a first step toward bridging this gap, optimizing vessel segmentation based on its diameter annotations. To do so we propose to extract boundary points from a star-shaped segmentation in a differentiable manner. This differentiable extraction allows reducing annotation burden as instead of the pixel-wise segmentation only the two annotated points required for diameter measurement are used for training the model. Our experiments show that training based on diameter is efficient; produces state-of-the-art weakly supervised segmentation; and performs reasonably compared to full supervision.

Original languageEnglish
JournalProceedings of Machine Learning Research
Volume172
Pages (from-to)188-198
ISSN2640-3498
Publication statusPublished - 2022
Event5th International Conference on Medical Imaging with Deep Learning, MIDL 2022 - Zurich, Switzerland
Duration: 6 Jul 20228 Jul 2022

Conference

Conference5th International Conference on Medical Imaging with Deep Learning, MIDL 2022
CountrySwitzerland
CityZurich
Period06/07/202208/07/2022

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This work was funded by Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) VICI project VI.C.182.042.

Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 H. Kervadec, D. Bos & M. de Bruijne.

    Research areas

  • Carotid artery stenosis, Image segmentation, weak annotations

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