1 February 2023 Confidence-aware cross-supervised model for semi-supervised skin lesion segmentation
Xuanjing Shen, Zhonglin Sun, Yan Sun, Haipeng Chen
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Abstract

A long-standing problem in melanoma segmentation is that the pixel-level skin lesion label must be manually labeled by experts. Semi-supervised learning is considered a promising way to solve this problem. However, the pseudo labels obtained in the training phase are not accurate and will introduce wrong guidance to the model’s training. The segmentation of the unlabeled data after filtering by the confidence map can be a reliable pseudo label in training processing. Thus, a confidence-aware cross-supervised network is proposed for skin lesion segmentation, using captured confidence to make the training process more reliable. Our method is composed of two parallel and independently initialized segmentation networks. The output of one segmentation branch filters the low-confidence area by the confidence map of the same network and is used as a pseudo label to supervise another branch. Furthermore, a consistency loss is designed to calculate cross-entropy between the pseudo label and prediction segmentation to make full use of the unlabeled data. We also propose a simple yet effective attention module to capture the feature from the target area. This approach effectively mines the semantic information of the input image. To validate the effectiveness of our method, we conduct experiments on the ISIC 2017 dataset and achieve state-of-the-art results.

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Xuanjing Shen, Zhonglin Sun, Yan Sun, and Haipeng Chen "Confidence-aware cross-supervised model for semi-supervised skin lesion segmentation," Journal of Electronic Imaging 32(1), 013016 (1 February 2023). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JEI.32.1.013016
Received: 25 October 2022; Accepted: 22 December 2022; Published: 1 February 2023
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KEYWORDS
Image segmentation

Education and training

Data modeling

Skin

Semantics

Convolution

Medical imaging

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