MOOD 2020: A public benchmark for out-of-distribution detection and localization on medical images
Author(s)
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Detecting Out-of-Distribution (OoD) data is one of the greatest challenges in safe and robust deployment of machine learning algorithms in medicine. When the algorithms encounter cases that deviate from the distribution of the training data, they often produce incorrect and over-confident predictions. OoD detection algorithms aim to catch erroneous predictions in advance by analysing the data distribution and detecting potential instances of failure. Moreover, flagging OoD cases may support human readers in identifying incidental findings. Due to the increased interest in OoD algorithms, benchmarks for different domains have recently been established. In the medical imaging domain, for which reliable predictions are often essential, an open benchmark has been missing. We introduce the Medical-Out-Of-Distribution-Analysis-Challenge (MOOD) as an open, fair, and unbiased benchmark for OoD methods in the medical imaging domain. The analysis of the submitted algorithms shows that performance has a strong positive correlation with the perceived difficulty, and that all algorithms show a high variance for different anomalies, making it yet hard to recommend them for clinical practice. We also see a strong correlation between challenge ranking and performance on a simple toy test set, indicating that this might be a valuable addition as a proxy dataset during anomaly detection algorithm development.
Date Issued
2022-10-01
Date Acceptance
2022-04-17
Citation
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 2022, 41 (10), pp.2728-2738
ISSN
0278-0062
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Start Page
2728
End Page
2738
Journal / Book Title
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
Volume
41
Issue
10
Copyright Statement
© 2022 The Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. For more information, see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
License URL
Identifier
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35468060
Subjects
Algorithms
Benchmarking
Humans
Machine Learning
Humans
Algorithms
Benchmarking
Machine Learning
Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
08 Information and Computing Sciences
09 Engineering
Publication Status
Published
Coverage Spatial
United States
Date Publish Online
2022-04-17