Uncertainty quantification in medical image segmentation with normalizing flows

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2006.02683v2
• Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2020 10:40:10 GMT
• Title: Uncertainty quantification in medical image segmentation with normalizing flows
• Authors: Raghavendra Selvan, Frederik Faye, Jon Middleton, Akshay Pai
• Abstract summary: We propose a novel conditional generative model that is based on conditional Normalizing Flow (cFlow) The basic idea is to increase the expressivity of the cVAE by introducing a cFlow transformation step after the encoder. This yields improved approximations of the latent posterior distribution, allowing the model to capture richer segmentation variations.
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• Abstract: Medical image segmentation is inherently an ambiguous task due to factors such as partial volumes and variations in anatomical definitions. While in most cases the segmentation uncertainty is around the border of structures of interest, there can also be considerable inter-rater differences. The class of conditional variational autoencoders (cVAE) offers a principled approach to inferring distributions over plausible segmentations that are conditioned on input images. Segmentation uncertainty estimated from samples of such distributions can be more informative than using pixel level probability scores. In this work, we propose a novel conditional generative model that is based on conditional Normalizing Flow (cFlow). The basic idea is to increase the expressivity of the cVAE by introducing a cFlow transformation step after the encoder. This yields improved approximations of the latent posterior distribution, allowing the model to capture richer segmentation variations. With this we show that the quality and diversity of samples obtained from our conditional generative model is enhanced. Performance of our model, which we call cFlow Net, is evaluated on two medical imaging datasets demonstrating substantial improvements in both qualitative and quantitative measures when compared to a recent cVAE based model.

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