Bidirectional Uncertainty-Aware Region Learning for Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.07457v1
• Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2025 11:03:09 GMT
• Title: Bidirectional Uncertainty-Aware Region Learning for Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation
• Authors: Shiwei Zhou, Haifeng Zhao, Dengdi Sun,
• Abstract summary: In semi-supervised medical image segmentation, the poor quality of unlabeled data and the uncertainty in the model's predictions lead to erroneous pseudo-labels. We found that these erroneous pseudo-labels are typically concentrated in high-uncertainty regions. To alleviate this problem, we propose a bidirectional uncertainty-aware region learning strategy.
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• Abstract: In semi-supervised medical image segmentation, the poor quality of unlabeled data and the uncertainty in the model's predictions lead to models that inevitably produce erroneous pseudo-labels. These errors accumulate throughout model training, thereby weakening the model's performance. We found that these erroneous pseudo-labels are typically concentrated in high-uncertainty regions. Traditional methods improve performance by directly discarding pseudo-labels in these regions, but this can also result in neglecting potentially valuable training data. To alleviate this problem, we propose a bidirectional uncertainty-aware region learning strategy. In training labeled data, we focus on high-uncertainty regions, using precise label information to guide the model's learning in potentially uncontrollable areas. Meanwhile, in the training of unlabeled data, we concentrate on low-uncertainty regions to reduce the interference of erroneous pseudo-labels on the model. Through this bidirectional learning strategy, the model's overall performance has significantly improved. Extensive experiments show that our proposed method achieves significant performance improvement on different medical image segmentation tasks.

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