Joint optimization of class-specific training- and test-time data augmentation in segmentation
Author(s)
Li, Zeju
Kamnitsas, Konstantinos
Dou, Qi
Qin, Chen
Glocker, Ben
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
This paper presents an effective and general data augmentation framework for medical image segmentation. We adopt a computationally efficient and data-efficient gradient-based meta-learning scheme to explicitly align the distribution of training and validation data which is used as a proxy for unseen test data. We improve the current data augmentation strategies with two core designs. First, we learn class-specific training-time data augmentation (TRA) effectively increasing the heterogeneity within the training subsets and tackling the class imbalance common in segmentation. Second, we jointly optimize TRA and test-time data augmentation (TEA), which are closely connected as both aim to align the training and test data distribution but were so far considered separately in previous works. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our method on four medical image segmentation tasks across different scenarios with two state-of-the-art segmentation models, DeepMedic and nnU-Net. Extensive experimentation shows that the proposed data augmentation framework can significantly and consistently improve the segmentation performance when compared to existing solutions. Code is publicly available at https://github.com/ZerojumpLine/JCSAugment.
Date Issued
2023-11
Date Acceptance
2023-05-28
Citation
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 2023, 42 (11), pp.3323-3335
ISSN
0278-0062
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Start Page
3323
End Page
3335
Journal / Book Title
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
Volume
42
Issue
11
Copyright Statement
© 2023 The Authors. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
For more information, see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
For more information, see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
License URL
Identifier
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37276115
Publication Status
Published
Coverage Spatial
United States
Date Publish Online
2023-06-05