Domain Adaptation of Echocardiography Segmentation Via Reinforcement Learning

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Main Authors: Judge, Arnaud, Judge, Thierry, Duchateau, Nicolas, Sandler, Roman A., Sokol, Joseph Z., Bernard, Olivier, Jodoin, Pierre-Marc
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author Judge, Arnaud
Judge, Thierry
Duchateau, Nicolas
Sandler, Roman A.
Sokol, Joseph Z.
Bernard, Olivier
Jodoin, Pierre-Marc
author_facet Judge, Arnaud
Judge, Thierry
Duchateau, Nicolas
Sandler, Roman A.
Sokol, Joseph Z.
Bernard, Olivier
Jodoin, Pierre-Marc
contents Performance of deep learning segmentation models is significantly challenged in its transferability across different medical imaging domains, particularly when aiming to adapt these models to a target domain with insufficient annotated data for effective fine-tuning. While existing domain adaptation (DA) methods propose strategies to alleviate this problem, these methods do not explicitly incorporate human-verified segmentation priors, compromising the potential of a model to produce anatomically plausible segmentations. We introduce RL4Seg, an innovative reinforcement learning framework that reduces the need to otherwise incorporate large expertly annotated datasets in the target domain, and eliminates the need for lengthy manual human review. Using a target dataset of 10,000 unannotated 2D echocardiographic images, RL4Seg not only outperforms existing state-of-the-art DA methods in accuracy but also achieves 99% anatomical validity on a subset of 220 expert-validated subjects from the target domain. Furthermore, our framework's reward network offers uncertainty estimates comparable with dedicated state-of-the-art uncertainty methods, demonstrating the utility and effectiveness of RL4Seg in overcoming domain adaptation challenges in medical image segmentation.
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spellingShingle Domain Adaptation of Echocardiography Segmentation Via Reinforcement Learning
Judge, Arnaud
Judge, Thierry
Duchateau, Nicolas
Sandler, Roman A.
Sokol, Joseph Z.
Bernard, Olivier
Jodoin, Pierre-Marc
Image and Video Processing
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
Performance of deep learning segmentation models is significantly challenged in its transferability across different medical imaging domains, particularly when aiming to adapt these models to a target domain with insufficient annotated data for effective fine-tuning. While existing domain adaptation (DA) methods propose strategies to alleviate this problem, these methods do not explicitly incorporate human-verified segmentation priors, compromising the potential of a model to produce anatomically plausible segmentations. We introduce RL4Seg, an innovative reinforcement learning framework that reduces the need to otherwise incorporate large expertly annotated datasets in the target domain, and eliminates the need for lengthy manual human review. Using a target dataset of 10,000 unannotated 2D echocardiographic images, RL4Seg not only outperforms existing state-of-the-art DA methods in accuracy but also achieves 99% anatomical validity on a subset of 220 expert-validated subjects from the target domain. Furthermore, our framework's reward network offers uncertainty estimates comparable with dedicated state-of-the-art uncertainty methods, demonstrating the utility and effectiveness of RL4Seg in overcoming domain adaptation challenges in medical image segmentation.
title Domain Adaptation of Echocardiography Segmentation Via Reinforcement Learning
topic Image and Video Processing
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.17902