Learning What is Worth Learning: Active and Sequential Domain Adaptation for Multi-modal Gross Tumor Volume Segmentation

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Autores principales: Yang, Jingyun, Zhang, Guoqing, Wang, Jingge, Li, Yang
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author Yang, Jingyun
Zhang, Guoqing
Wang, Jingge
Li, Yang
author_facet Yang, Jingyun
Zhang, Guoqing
Wang, Jingge
Li, Yang
contents Accurate gross tumor volume segmentation on multi-modal medical data is critical for radiotherapy planning in nasopharyngeal carcinoma and glioblastoma. Recent advances in deep neural networks have brought promising results in medical image segmentation, leading to an increasing demand for labeled data. Since labeling medical images is time-consuming and labor-intensive, active learning has emerged as a solution to reduce annotation costs by selecting the most informative samples to label and adapting high-performance models with as few labeled samples as possible. Previous active domain adaptation (ADA) methods seek to minimize sample redundancy by selecting samples that are farthest from the source domain. However, such one-off selection can easily cause negative transfer, and access to source medical data is often limited. Moreover, the query strategy for multi-modal medical data remains unexplored. In this work, we propose an active and sequential domain adaptation framework for dynamic multi-modal sample selection in ADA. We derive a query strategy to prioritize labeling and training on the most valuable samples based on their informativeness and representativeness. Empirical validation on diverse gross tumor volume segmentation tasks demonstrates that our method achieves favorable segmentation performance, significantly outperforming state-of-the-art ADA methods. Code is available at the git repository: \href{https://github.com/Hiyoochan/mmActS}{mmActS}.
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spellingShingle Learning What is Worth Learning: Active and Sequential Domain Adaptation for Multi-modal Gross Tumor Volume Segmentation
Yang, Jingyun
Zhang, Guoqing
Wang, Jingge
Li, Yang
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Accurate gross tumor volume segmentation on multi-modal medical data is critical for radiotherapy planning in nasopharyngeal carcinoma and glioblastoma. Recent advances in deep neural networks have brought promising results in medical image segmentation, leading to an increasing demand for labeled data. Since labeling medical images is time-consuming and labor-intensive, active learning has emerged as a solution to reduce annotation costs by selecting the most informative samples to label and adapting high-performance models with as few labeled samples as possible. Previous active domain adaptation (ADA) methods seek to minimize sample redundancy by selecting samples that are farthest from the source domain. However, such one-off selection can easily cause negative transfer, and access to source medical data is often limited. Moreover, the query strategy for multi-modal medical data remains unexplored. In this work, we propose an active and sequential domain adaptation framework for dynamic multi-modal sample selection in ADA. We derive a query strategy to prioritize labeling and training on the most valuable samples based on their informativeness and representativeness. Empirical validation on diverse gross tumor volume segmentation tasks demonstrates that our method achieves favorable segmentation performance, significantly outperforming state-of-the-art ADA methods. Code is available at the git repository: \href{https://github.com/Hiyoochan/mmActS}{mmActS}.
title Learning What is Worth Learning: Active and Sequential Domain Adaptation for Multi-modal Gross Tumor Volume Segmentation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20528