Uncertainty quantification in medical image segmentation with normalizing flows

Raghavendra Selvan, Frederik Faye, Jon Middleton, Akshay Pai

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Abstract

Medical image segmentation is inherently an ambiguous task due to factors such as partial volumes and variations in anatomical definitions. While in most cases the segmentation uncertainty is around the border of structures of interest, there can also be considerable inter-rater differences. The class of conditional variational autoencoders (cVAE) offers a principled approach to inferring distributions over plausible segmentations that are conditioned on input images. Segmentation uncertainty estimated from samples of such distributions can be more informative than using pixel level probability scores. In this work, we propose a novel conditional generative model that is based on conditional Normalizing Flow (cFlow). The basic idea is to increase the expressivity of the cVAE by introducing a cFlow transformation step after the encoder. This yields improved approximations of the latent posterior distribution, allowing the model to capture richer segmentation variations. With this we show that the quality and diversity of samples obtained from our conditional generative model is enhanced. Performance of our model, which we call cFlow Net, is evaluated on two medical imaging datasets demonstrating substantial improvements in both qualitative and quantitative measures when compared to a recent cVAE based model.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TitelMachine Learning in Medical Imaging : 11th International Workshop, MLMI 2020, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2020, Lima, Peru, October 4, 2020, Proceedings
Antal sider12
ForlagSpringer
Publikationsdato2020
ISBN (Elektronisk)978-3-030-59861-7
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2020
Begivenhed11th International Workshop on Machine Learning in Medical Imaging, MLMI 2020, held in conjunction with the 23rd International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2020 - Lima, Peru
Varighed: 4 okt. 20204 okt. 2020

Konference

Konference11th International Workshop on Machine Learning in Medical Imaging, MLMI 2020, held in conjunction with the 23rd International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2020
Land/OmrådePeru
ByLima
Periode04/10/202004/10/2020
NavnLecture Notes in Computer Science
Vol/bind12436
ISSN0302-9743

Bibliografisk note

Accepted to be presented at 11th International Workshop on Machine Learning in Medical Imaging. Source code will be updated at https://github.com/raghavian/cFlow

Emneord

  • stat.ML
  • cs.CV
  • cs.LG

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