MI-SegNet: Mutual Information-Based US Segmentation for Unseen Domain Generalization

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Hauptverfasser: Bi, Yuan, Jiang, Zhongliang, Clarenbach, Ricarda, Ghotbi, Reza, Karlas, Angelos, Navab, Nassir
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author Bi, Yuan
Jiang, Zhongliang
Clarenbach, Ricarda
Ghotbi, Reza
Karlas, Angelos
Navab, Nassir
author_facet Bi, Yuan
Jiang, Zhongliang
Clarenbach, Ricarda
Ghotbi, Reza
Karlas, Angelos
Navab, Nassir
contents Generalization capabilities of learning-based medical image segmentation across domains are currently limited by the performance degradation caused by the domain shift, particularly for ultrasound (US) imaging. The quality of US images heavily relies on carefully tuned acoustic parameters, which vary across sonographers, machines, and settings. To improve the generalizability on US images across domains, we propose MI-SegNet, a novel mutual information (MI) based framework to explicitly disentangle the anatomical and domain feature representations; therefore, robust domain-independent segmentation can be expected. Two encoders are employed to extract the relevant features for the disentanglement. The segmentation only uses the anatomical feature map for its prediction. In order to force the encoders to learn meaningful feature representations a cross-reconstruction method is used during training. Transformations, specific to either domain or anatomy are applied to guide the encoders in their respective feature extraction task. Additionally, any MI present in both feature maps is punished to further promote separate feature spaces. We validate the generalizability of the proposed domain-independent segmentation approach on several datasets with varying parameters and machines. Furthermore, we demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed MI-SegNet serving as a pre-trained model by comparing it with state-of-the-art networks.
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spellingShingle MI-SegNet: Mutual Information-Based US Segmentation for Unseen Domain Generalization
Bi, Yuan
Jiang, Zhongliang
Clarenbach, Ricarda
Ghotbi, Reza
Karlas, Angelos
Navab, Nassir
Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Generalization capabilities of learning-based medical image segmentation across domains are currently limited by the performance degradation caused by the domain shift, particularly for ultrasound (US) imaging. The quality of US images heavily relies on carefully tuned acoustic parameters, which vary across sonographers, machines, and settings. To improve the generalizability on US images across domains, we propose MI-SegNet, a novel mutual information (MI) based framework to explicitly disentangle the anatomical and domain feature representations; therefore, robust domain-independent segmentation can be expected. Two encoders are employed to extract the relevant features for the disentanglement. The segmentation only uses the anatomical feature map for its prediction. In order to force the encoders to learn meaningful feature representations a cross-reconstruction method is used during training. Transformations, specific to either domain or anatomy are applied to guide the encoders in their respective feature extraction task. Additionally, any MI present in both feature maps is punished to further promote separate feature spaces. We validate the generalizability of the proposed domain-independent segmentation approach on several datasets with varying parameters and machines. Furthermore, we demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed MI-SegNet serving as a pre-trained model by comparing it with state-of-the-art networks.
title MI-SegNet: Mutual Information-Based US Segmentation for Unseen Domain Generalization
topic Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12649