Comparative Benchmarking of Failure Detection Methods in Medical Image Segmentation: Unveiling the Role of Confidence Aggregation

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Main Authors: Zenk, Maximilian, Zimmerer, David, Isensee, Fabian, Traub, Jeremias, Norajitra, Tobias, Jäger, Paul F., Maier-Hein, Klaus
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author Zenk, Maximilian
Zimmerer, David
Isensee, Fabian
Traub, Jeremias
Norajitra, Tobias
Jäger, Paul F.
Maier-Hein, Klaus
author_facet Zenk, Maximilian
Zimmerer, David
Isensee, Fabian
Traub, Jeremias
Norajitra, Tobias
Jäger, Paul F.
Maier-Hein, Klaus
contents Semantic segmentation is an essential component of medical image analysis research, with recent deep learning algorithms offering out-of-the-box applicability across diverse datasets. Despite these advancements, segmentation failures remain a significant concern for real-world clinical applications, necessitating reliable detection mechanisms. This paper introduces a comprehensive benchmarking framework aimed at evaluating failure detection methodologies within medical image segmentation. Through our analysis, we identify the strengths and limitations of current failure detection metrics, advocating for the risk-coverage analysis as a holistic evaluation approach. Utilizing a collective dataset comprising five public 3D medical image collections, we assess the efficacy of various failure detection strategies under realistic test-time distribution shifts. Our findings highlight the importance of pixel confidence aggregation and we observe superior performance of the pairwise Dice score (Roy et al., 2019) between ensemble predictions, positioning it as a simple and robust baseline for failure detection in medical image segmentation. To promote ongoing research, we make the benchmarking framework available to the community.
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spellingShingle Comparative Benchmarking of Failure Detection Methods in Medical Image Segmentation: Unveiling the Role of Confidence Aggregation
Zenk, Maximilian
Zimmerer, David
Isensee, Fabian
Traub, Jeremias
Norajitra, Tobias
Jäger, Paul F.
Maier-Hein, Klaus
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Semantic segmentation is an essential component of medical image analysis research, with recent deep learning algorithms offering out-of-the-box applicability across diverse datasets. Despite these advancements, segmentation failures remain a significant concern for real-world clinical applications, necessitating reliable detection mechanisms. This paper introduces a comprehensive benchmarking framework aimed at evaluating failure detection methodologies within medical image segmentation. Through our analysis, we identify the strengths and limitations of current failure detection metrics, advocating for the risk-coverage analysis as a holistic evaluation approach. Utilizing a collective dataset comprising five public 3D medical image collections, we assess the efficacy of various failure detection strategies under realistic test-time distribution shifts. Our findings highlight the importance of pixel confidence aggregation and we observe superior performance of the pairwise Dice score (Roy et al., 2019) between ensemble predictions, positioning it as a simple and robust baseline for failure detection in medical image segmentation. To promote ongoing research, we make the benchmarking framework available to the community.
title Comparative Benchmarking of Failure Detection Methods in Medical Image Segmentation: Unveiling the Role of Confidence Aggregation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.03323