Semi-supervised learning methods for unsupervised domain adaptation in medical imaging segmentation

Machine learning applications make several assumptions regarding the scenario where they are employed. One common assumption is that data distribution in the test environment follows the same distribution of the training set. This assumption is systematically broken in most real-world scenarios; the...

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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autor: Ballester, Pedro Lemos
Formato: tesis de maestría
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:Brasil
Recursos:Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS)
Repositorio:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_RS
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:tede2.pucrs.br:tede/8843
Acesso em linha:http://tede2.pucrs.br/tede2/handle/tede/8843
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Aprendizado Profundo
Adaptação de Domínio
Aprendizado Semi-Supervisionado
Self-Ensembling
Deep Learning
Domain Adaptation
Semi-Supervised Learning
CIENCIA DA COMPUTACAO::TEORIA DA COMPUTACAO
Descrição
Resumo:Machine learning applications make several assumptions regarding the scenario where they are employed. One common assumption is that data distribution in the test environment follows the same distribution of the training set. This assumption is systematically broken in most real-world scenarios; the difference between these distributions is commonly known as domain shift. Unsupervised domain adaptation aims at suppressing this problem by leveraging knowledge with unlabeled data from the test environment. One of the most sensitive fields for domain shift is medical imaging. Due to the heterogeneity in data distributions from scanners, models tend to vary in predictive performance when dealing with images from scanners with no examples in the training set. We propose two contributions in this work. First, we introduce the use of self-ensembling domain adaptation in the field of medical imaging segmentation in a spinal cord grey matter segmentation task. Next, based on the success of self-ensembling, we adapt two other recent work from the semi-supervised learning literature to the same task, namely, unsupervised data augmentation and MixMatch. We conduct ablation studies and other experiments in order to understand the behavior of each method and compare their best results. The results show improvements over training models in a supervised learning fashion and demonstrate that recent semi-supervised learning methods are promising for domain adaptation in medical imaging segmentation.