Carbon Footprint of Selecting and Training Deep Learning Models for Medical Image Analysis

Raghavendra Selvan, Nikhil Bhagwat, Lasse F. Wolff Anthony, Benjamin Kanding, Erik B. Dam

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Abstract

The increasing energy consumption and carbon footprint of deep learning (DL) due to growing compute requirements has become a cause of concern. In this work, we focus on the carbon footprint of developing DL models for medical image analysis (MIA), where volumetric images of high spatial resolution are handled. In this study, we present and compare the features of four tools from literature to quantify the carbon footprint of DL. Using one of these tools we estimate the carbon footprint of medical image segmentation pipelines. We choose nnU-net as the proxy for a medical image segmentation pipeline and experiment on three common datasets. With our work we hope to inform on the increasing energy costs incurred by MIA. We discuss simple strategies to cut-down the environmental impact that can make model selection and training processes more efficient.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMedical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2022 : 25th International Conference Singapore, September 18–22, 2022 Proceedings, Part V
PublisherSpringer
Publication date2022
Pages506–516
ISBN (Print) 978-3-031-16442-2
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-031-16443-9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022
Event25th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2022 - Singapore, Singapore
Duration: 18 Sep 202222 Sep 2022

Conference

Conference25th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2022
Country/TerritorySingapore
CitySingapore
Period18/09/202222/09/2022
SeriesLecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume13435
ISSN0302-9743

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