Nature Communications (Oct 2021)

Annotation-efficient deep learning for automatic medical image segmentation

  • Shanshan Wang,
  • Cheng Li,
  • Rongpin Wang,
  • Zaiyi Liu,
  • Meiyun Wang,
  • Hongna Tan,
  • Yaping Wu,
  • Xinfeng Liu,
  • Hui Sun,
  • Rui Yang,
  • Xin Liu,
  • Jie Chen,
  • Huihui Zhou,
  • Ismail Ben Ayed,
  • Hairong Zheng

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26216-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Existing high-performance deep learning methods typically rely on large training datasets with high-quality manual annotations, which are difficult to obtain in many clinical applications. Here, the authors introduce an open-source framework to handle imperfect training datasets.