Hengyang Liu, Pengcheng Ren, Yang Yuan, Chengyun Song, Fen Luo
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Abstract
In semi-supervised medical image segmentation, the issue of fuzzy boundaries for segmented objects arises. With limited labeled data and the interaction of boundaries from different segmented objects, classifying segmentation boundaries becomes challenging. To mitigate this issue, we propose an uncertainty global contrastive learning (UGCL) framework. Specifically, we propose a patch filtering method and a classification entropy filtering method to provide reliable pseudo-labels for unlabelled data, while separating fuzzy boundaries and high-entropy pixel points as unreliable points. Considering that unreliable regions contain rich complementary information, we introduce an uncertainty global contrast learning method to distinguish these challenging unreliable regions, enhancing intra-class compactness and inter-class separability at the global data level. Within our optimization framework, we also integrate consistency regularization techniques and select unreliable points as targets for consistency. As demonstrated, the contrastive learning and consistency regularization applied to uncertain points enable us to glean valuable semantic information from unreliable data, which enhances segmentation accuracy. We evaluate our method on two publicly available medical image datasets and compare it with other state-of-the-art semi-supervised medical image segmentation methods, and a series of experimental results show that our method has achieved substantial improvements.
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IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics publishes original papers presenting recent advances where information and communication technologies intersect with health, healthcare, life sciences, and biomedicine. Topics include acquisition, transmission, storage, retrieval, management, and analysis of biomedical and health information. The journal covers applications of information technologies in healthcare, patient monitoring, preventive care, early disease diagnosis, therapy discovery, and personalized treatment protocols. It explores electronic medical and health records, clinical information systems, decision support systems, medical and biological imaging informatics, wearable systems, body area/sensor networks, and more. Integration-related topics like interoperability, evidence-based medicine, and secure patient data are also addressed.