Generalized Probabilistic U-Net for Medical Image Segementation

Ishaan Bhat*, Josien P.W. Pluim, Hugo J. Kuijf

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Abstract

We propose the Generalized Probabilistic U-Net, which extends the Probabilistic U-Net [14] by allowing more general forms of the Gaussian distribution as the latent space distribution that can better approximate the uncertainty in the reference segmentations. We study the effect the choice of latent space distribution has on capturing the uncertainty in the reference segmentations using the LIDC-IDRI dataset. We show that the choice of distribution affects the sample diversity of the predictions and their overlap with respect to the reference segmentations. For the LIDC-IDRI dataset, we show that using a mixture of Gaussians results in a statistically significant improvement in the generalized energy distance (GED) metric with respect to the standard Probabilistic U-Net. We have made our implementation available at https://github.com/ishaanb92/GeneralizedProbabilisticUNet.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationUncertainty for Safe Utilization of Machine Learning in Medical Imaging - 4th International Workshop, UNSURE 2022, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2022, Proceedings
EditorsCarole H. Sudre, Carole H. Sudre, Christian F. Baumgartner, Adrian Dalca, Adrian Dalca, William M. Wells III, Chen Qin, Ryutaro Tanno, Koen Van Leemput, Koen Van Leemput, William M. Wells III
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages113-124
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)9783031167485
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022
Event4th Workshop on Uncertainty for Safe Utilization of Machine Learning in Medical Imaging, UNSURE 2022, held in conjunction with 25th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2022 - Singapore, Singapore
Duration: 18 Sept 202218 Sept 2022

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume13563 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference4th Workshop on Uncertainty for Safe Utilization of Machine Learning in Medical Imaging, UNSURE 2022, held in conjunction with 25th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2022
Country/TerritorySingapore
CitySingapore
Period18/09/2218/09/22

Keywords

  • Image segmentation
  • Uncertainty estimation
  • Variational inference

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