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- Title
Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation Guided by Bi-Directional Constrained Dual-Task Consistency.
- Authors
Pan, Ming-Zhang; Liao, Xiao-Lan; Li, Zhen; Deng, Ya-Wen; Chen, Yuan; Bian, Gui-Bin
- Abstract
Background: Medical image processing tasks represented by multi-object segmentation are of great significance for surgical planning, robot-assisted surgery, and surgical safety. However, the exceptionally low contrast among tissues and limited available annotated data makes developing an automatic segmentation algorithm for pelvic CT challenging. Methods: A bi-direction constrained dual-task consistency model named PICT is proposed to improve segmentation quality by leveraging free unlabeled data. First, to learn more unmarked data features, it encourages the model prediction of the interpolated image to be consistent with the interpolation of the model prediction at the pixel, model, and data levels. Moreover, to constrain the error prediction of interpolation interference, PICT designs an auxiliary pseudo-supervision task that focuses on the underlying information of non-interpolation data. Finally, an effective loss algorithm for both consistency tasks is designed to ensure the complementary manner and produce more reliable predictions. Results: Quantitative experiments show that the proposed PICT achieves 87.18%, 96.42%, and 79.41% mean DSC score on ACDC, CTPelvic1k, and the individual Multi-tissue Pelvis dataset with gains of around 0.8%, 0.5%, and 1% compared to the state-of-the-art semi-supervised method. Compared to the baseline supervised method, the PICT brings over 3–9% improvements. Conclusions: The developed PICT model can effectively leverage unlabeled data to improve segmentation quality of low contrast medical images. The segmentation result could improve the precision of surgical path planning and provide input for robot-assisted surgery.
- Subjects
DIAGNOSTIC imaging; SURGICAL robots; SUPERVISED learning; PREDICTION models; INTERPOLATION; IMAGE segmentation; IMAGE processing
- Publication
Bioengineering (Basel), 2023, Vol 10, Issue 2, p225
- ISSN
2306-5354
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/bioengineering10020225