2022-07-04 更新
Stain Isolation-based Guidance for Improved Stain Translation
Authors:Nicolas Brieu, Felix J. Segerer, Ansh Kapil, Philipp Wortmann, Guenter Schmidt
Unsupervised and unpaired domain translation using generative adversarial neural networks, and more precisely CycleGAN, is state of the art for the stain translation of histopathology images. It often, however, suffers from the presence of cycle-consistent but non structure-preserving errors. We propose an alternative approach to the set of methods which, relying on segmentation consistency, enable the preservation of pathology structures. Focusing on immunohistochemistry (IHC) and multiplexed immunofluorescence (mIF), we introduce a simple yet effective guidance scheme as a loss function that leverages the consistency of stain translation with stain isolation. Qualitative and quantitative experiments show the ability of the proposed approach to improve translation between the two domains.
PDF Short Paper - MIDL2022 (Medical Imaging with Deep Learning)
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Online Reflective Learning for Robust Medical Image Segmentation
Authors:Yuhao Huang, Xin Yang, Xiaoqiong Huang, Jiamin Liang, Xinrui Zhou, Cheng Chen, Haoran Dou, Xindi Hu, Yan Cao, Dong Ni
Deep segmentation models often face the failure risks when the testing image presents unseen distributions. Improving model robustness against these risks is crucial for the large-scale clinical application of deep models. In this study, inspired by human learning cycle, we propose a novel online reflective learning framework (RefSeg) to improve segmentation robustness. Based on the reflection-on-action conception, our RefSeg firstly drives the deep model to take action to obtain semantic segmentation. Then, RefSeg triggers the model to reflect itself. Because making deep models realize their segmentation failures during testing is challenging, RefSeg synthesizes a realistic proxy image from the semantic mask to help deep models build intuitive and effective reflections. This proxy translates and emphasizes the segmentation flaws. By maximizing the structural similarity between the raw input and the proxy, the reflection-on-action loop is closed with segmentation robustness improved. RefSeg runs in the testing phase and is general for segmentation models. Extensive validation on three medical image segmentation tasks with a public cardiac MR dataset and two in-house large ultrasound datasets show that our RefSeg remarkably improves model robustness and reports state-of-the-art performance over strong competitors.
PDF Accepted by MICCAI 2022
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