Co-training with High-Confidence Pseudo Labels for Semi-supervised Medical Image Segmentation
Co-training with High-Confidence Pseudo Labels for Semi-supervised Medical Image Segmentation
Zhiqiang Shen, Peng Cao, Hua Yang, Xiaoli Liu, Jinzhu Yang, Osmar R. Zaiane
Proceedings of the Thirty-Second International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Main Track. Pages 4199-4207.
https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2023/467
Consistency regularization and pseudo labeling-based semi-supervised methods perform co-training using the pseudo labels from multi-view inputs. However, such co-training models tend to converge early to a consensus, degenerating to the self-training ones, and produce low-confidence pseudo labels from the perturbed inputs during training.
To address these issues, we propose an Uncertainty-guided Collaborative Mean-Teacher (UCMT) for semi-supervised semantic segmentation with the high-confidence pseudo labels. Concretely, UCMT consists of two main components: 1) collaborative mean-teacher (CMT) for encouraging model disagreement and performing co-training between the sub-networks, and 2) uncertainty-guided region mix (UMIX) for manipulating the input images according to the uncertainty maps of CMT and facilitating CMT to produce high-confidence pseudo labels.
Combining the strengths of UMIX with CMT, UCMT can retain model disagreement and enhance the quality of pseudo labels for the co-training segmentation.
Extensive experiments on four public medical image datasets including 2D and 3D modalities demonstrate the superiority of UCMT over the state-of-the-art.
Code is available at: https://github.com/Senyh/UCMT.
Keywords:
Machine Learning: ML: Semi-supervised learning
Computer Vision: CV: Biomedical image analysis
Computer Vision: CV: Segmentation