DAWN: Domain-Adaptive Weakly Supervised Nuclei Segmentation via Cross-Task Interactions

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2404.14956v2
• Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2024 06:03:48 GMT
• Title: DAWN: Domain-Adaptive Weakly Supervised Nuclei Segmentation via Cross-Task Interactions
• Authors: Ye Zhang, Yifeng Wang, Zijie Fang, Hao Bian, Linghan Cai, Ziyue Wang, Yongbing Zhang,
• Abstract summary: Current weakly supervised nuclei segmentation approaches follow a two-stage pseudo-label generation and network training process. This paper introduces a novel domain-adaptive weakly supervised nuclei segmentation framework using cross-task interaction strategies. To validate the effectiveness of our proposed method, we conduct extensive comparative and ablation experiments on six datasets.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Weakly supervised segmentation methods have gained significant attention due to their ability to reduce the reliance on costly pixel-level annotations during model training. However, the current weakly supervised nuclei segmentation approaches typically follow a two-stage pseudo-label generation and network training process. The performance of the nuclei segmentation heavily relies on the quality of the generated pseudo-labels, thereby limiting its effectiveness. This paper introduces a novel domain-adaptive weakly supervised nuclei segmentation framework using cross-task interaction strategies to overcome the challenge of pseudo-label generation. Specifically, we utilize weakly annotated data to train an auxiliary detection task, which assists the domain adaptation of the segmentation network. To enhance the efficiency of domain adaptation, we design a consistent feature constraint module integrating prior knowledge from the source domain. Furthermore, we develop pseudo-label optimization and interactive training methods to improve the domain transfer capability. To validate the effectiveness of our proposed method, we conduct extensive comparative and ablation experiments on six datasets. The results demonstrate the superiority of our approach over existing weakly supervised approaches. Remarkably, our method achieves comparable or even better performance than fully supervised methods. Our code will be released in https://github.com/zhangye-zoe/DAWN.

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