Ensembles of Multiple Models and Architectures for Robust Brain Tumour Segmentation
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Accepted version
Author(s)
Type
Working Paper
Abstract
Deep learning approaches such as convolutional neural nets have consistently outperformed previous methods on challenging tasks such as dense, semantic segmentation. However, the various proposed networks perform differently, with behaviour largely influenced by architectural choices and training settings. This paper explores Ensembles of Multiple Models and Architectures (EMMA) for robust performance through aggregation of predictions from a wide range of methods. The approach reduces the influence of the meta-parameters of individual models and the risk of overfitting the configuration to a particular database. EMMA can be seen as an unbiased, generic deep learning model which is shown to yield excellent performance, winning the first position in the BRATS 2017 competition among 50+ participating teams.
Copyright Statement
© The Authors
Sponsor
Commission of the European Communities
NVIDIA Corporation
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)
Identifier
http://arxiv.org/abs/1711.01468v1
Grant Number
HEALTH-F2-2013-602150
EP/N023668/1
Subjects
cs.CV
cs.AI
cs.LG
Notes
The method won the 1st-place in the Brain Tumour Segmentation (BRATS) 2017 competition (segmentation task)