Uncertainty Evaluation Metric for Brain Tumour Segmentation
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14262v1
- Date: Thu, 28 May 2020 19:53:32 GMT
- Title: Uncertainty Evaluation Metric for Brain Tumour Segmentation
- Abstract summary: We develop a metric designed to assess and rank uncertainty measures for the task of brain tumour sub-tissue segmentation.
The metric is designed to: (1) reward uncertainty measures where high confidence is assigned to correct assertions, and where incorrect assertions are assigned low confidence.
Here, the workings of the components of the metric are explored based on a number of popular uncertainty measures evaluated on the BraTS 2019 dataset.
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- Abstract: In this paper, we develop a metric designed to assess and rank uncertainty
measures for the task of brain tumour sub-tissue segmentation in the BraTS 2019
sub-challenge on uncertainty quantification. The metric is designed to: (1)
reward uncertainty measures where high confidence is assigned to correct
assertions, and where incorrect assertions are assigned low confidence and (2)
penalize measures that have higher percentages of under-confident correct
assertions. Here, the workings of the components of the metric are explored
based on a number of popular uncertainty measures evaluated on the BraTS 2019
dataset.
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