Crowd disagreement about medical images is informative

Veronika Cheplygina*, Josien P.W. Pluim

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Classifiers for medical image analysis are often trained with a single consensus label, based on combining labels given by experts or crowds. However, disagreement between annotators may be informative, and thus removing it may not be the best strategy. As a proof of concept, we predict whether a skin lesion from the ISIC 2017 dataset is a melanoma or not, based on crowd annotations of visual characteristics of that lesion. We compare using the mean annotations, illustrating consensus, to standard deviations and other distribution moments, illustrating disagreement. We show that the mean annotations perform best, but that the disagreement measures are still informative. We also make the crowd annotations used in this paper available at https://figshare.com/s/5cbbce14647b66286544.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIntravascular Imaging and Computer Assisted Stenting and Large-Scale Annotation of Biomedical Data and Expert Label Synthesis - 7th Joint International Workshop, CVII-STENT 2018 and Third International Workshop, LABELS 2018 Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2018
EditorsSu-Lin Lee, Emanuele Trucco, Lena Maier-Hein, Stefano Moriconi, Shadi Albarqouni, Pierre Jannin, Simone Balocco, Guillaume Zahnd, Diana Mateus, Zeike Taylor, Stefanie Demirci, Danail Stoyanov, Raphael Sznitman, Anne Martel, Veronika Cheplygina, Eric Granger, Luc Duong
PublisherSpringer-Verlag
Pages105-111
Number of pages7
ISBN (Print)9783030013639
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2018
Event7th Joint International Workshop on Computing and Visualization for Intravascular Imaging and Computer Assisted Stenting, CVII-STENT 2018, and the 3rd International Workshop on Large-Scale Annotation of Biomedical Data and Expert Label Synthesis, LABELS 2018, held in conjunction with the 21th International Conference on Medical Imaging and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2018 - Granada, Spain
Duration: 16 Sept 201816 Sept 2018

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume11043 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference7th Joint International Workshop on Computing and Visualization for Intravascular Imaging and Computer Assisted Stenting, CVII-STENT 2018, and the 3rd International Workshop on Large-Scale Annotation of Biomedical Data and Expert Label Synthesis, LABELS 2018, held in conjunction with the 21th International Conference on Medical Imaging and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2018
Country/TerritorySpain
CityGranada
Period16/09/1816/09/18

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