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Confidence Calibration and Predictive Uncertainty Estimation for Deep Medical Image Segmentation

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Mehrtash, Alireza, Wells, William M., Tempany, Clare M., Abolmaesumi, Purang, Kapur, Tina·2020·IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

DOI 10.1109/tmi.2020.3006437PMC PMC7704933

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Fully convolutional neural networks (FCNs), and in particular U-Nets, have achieved state-of-the-art results in semantic segmentation for numerous medical imaging applications. Moreover, batch normalization and Dice loss have been used successfully to stabilize and accelerate training. However, these networks are poorly calibrated i.e. they tend to produce overconfident predictions for both correct and erroneous classifications, making them unreliable and hard to interpret. In this paper, we study predictive uncertainty estimation in FCNs for medical image segmentation. We make the following contributions: 1) We systematically compare cross-entropy loss with Dice loss in terms of segmentation quality and uncertainty estimation of FCNs; 2) We propose model ensembling for confidence calibration of the FCNs trained with batch normalization and Dice loss; 3) We assess the ability of calibrated FCNs to predict segmentation quality of structures and detect out-of-distribution test examples. We conduct extensive experiments across three medical image segmentation applications of the brain, the heart, and the prostate to evaluate our contributions. The results of this study offer considerable insight into the predictive uncertainty estimation and out-of-distribution detection in medical image segmentation and provide practical recipes for confidence calibration. Moreover, we consistently demonstrate that model ensembling improves confidence calibration.

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Authors: Mehrtash, A., Wells, W. M., Tempany, C. M., Abolmaesumi, P., & Kapur, T.
Affiliations: Brigham and Women's Hospital (US)
University of British Columbia (CA)
ORCID: Mehrtash, Alireza
Wells, William M.
Abolmaesumi, Purang
Kapur, Tina
Venue: IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Published: 2020-12
Volume: 39
Issue: 12
Pages: 3868-3878
ISSN: 0278-0062 (ISSN-L)
1558-254X
DOI: 10.1109/tmi.2020.3006437
PMC: PMC7704933
OpenAlex: W2991523350
Cited by: 428
References: 55
Citations by year: 2026: 91 · 2025: 92 · 2024: 71 · 2023: 71 · 2022: 56 · 2021: 41 · 2020: 6
FWCI: 16.91
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: green
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Licence: ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplorehelp/downloads/license-information/IEEE.html (vor)
doi.org/10.15223/policy-029 (stm-asf)
doi.org/10.15223/policy-037 (stm-asf)
Locations: IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
arXiv (Cornell University)
Funders: U.S. National Institutes of Health (P41EB015898)
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Topics: Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Medical Image Segmentation Techniques
Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Advanced Neural Network Applications
Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning
Keywords: confidence calibration, predictive uncertainty estimation, medical image segmentation, fully convolutional network, U-Net, Dice loss, cross-entropy loss, model ensembling, out-of-distribution detection, batch normalization, brain segmentation, cardiac image segmentation, prostate segmentation
MeSH terms: Brain, Calibration, Humans, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted, Male, Neural Networks, Computer, Uncertainty

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