Unsupervised domain adaptation in brain lesion segmentation with adversarial networks
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Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
Significant advances have been made towards building accu-
rate automatic segmentation systems for a variety of biomedical applica-
tions using machine learning. However, the performance of these systems
often degrades when they are applied on new data that differ from the
training data, for example, due to variations in imaging protocols. Man-
ually annotating new data for each test domain is not a feasible solution.
In this work we investigate unsupervised domain adaptation using ad-
versarial neural networks to train a segmentation method which is more
invariant to differences in the input data, and which does not require any
annotations on the test domain. Specifically, we learn domain-invariant
features by learning to counter an adversarial network, which attempts
to classify the domain of the input data by observing the activations of
the segmentation network. Furthermore, we propose a multi-connected
domain discriminator for improved adversarial training. Our system is
evaluated using two MR databases of subjects with traumatic brain in-
juries, acquired using different scanners and imaging protocols. Using
our unsupervised approach, we obtain segmentation accuracies which
are close to the upper bound of supervised domain adaptation.
rate automatic segmentation systems for a variety of biomedical applica-
tions using machine learning. However, the performance of these systems
often degrades when they are applied on new data that differ from the
training data, for example, due to variations in imaging protocols. Man-
ually annotating new data for each test domain is not a feasible solution.
In this work we investigate unsupervised domain adaptation using ad-
versarial neural networks to train a segmentation method which is more
invariant to differences in the input data, and which does not require any
annotations on the test domain. Specifically, we learn domain-invariant
features by learning to counter an adversarial network, which attempts
to classify the domain of the input data by observing the activations of
the segmentation network. Furthermore, we propose a multi-connected
domain discriminator for improved adversarial training. Our system is
evaluated using two MR databases of subjects with traumatic brain in-
juries, acquired using different scanners and imaging protocols. Using
our unsupervised approach, we obtain segmentation accuracies which
are close to the upper bound of supervised domain adaptation.
Date Issued
2017-05-23
Date Acceptance
2017-02-09
Citation
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2017, 10265, pp.597-609
ISSN
0302-9743
Publisher
Springer Verlag
Start Page
597
End Page
609
Journal / Book Title
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume
10265
Copyright Statement
© Springer International Publishing AG 2017. The final publication is available at Springer via https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59050-9_47
Sponsor
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)
NVIDIA Corporation
Commission of the European Communities
Identifier
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-59050-9_47
Grant Number
EP/N023668/1
HEALTH-F2-2013-602150
Source
Information Processing in Medical Imaging
Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Computer Science, Information Systems
Computer Science, Theory & Methods
Imaging Science & Photographic Technology
Computer Science
CNN
cs.CV
cs.CV
Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing
Publication Status
Published
Start Date
2017-06-25
Finish Date
2017-06-30
Coverage Spatial
Boone, USA
Date Publish Online
2017-05-23