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Assessing the quality of segmentations on an image database is required as many downstream clinical applications are based on segmentation results. For large databases, this quality assessment becomes tedious for a human expert and therefore some automation of this task is necessary. In this paper, we introduce a novel unsupervised approach to assist the quality control of image segmentations by measuring their adequacy with segmentations produced by a generic probabilistic model. To this end, we introduce a new segmentation model combining intensity and a spatial prior defined through a combination of spatially smooth kernels. The tractability of the approach is obtained by solving a type-II maximum likelihood which directly estimates hyperparameters. Assessing the quality of the segmentation with respect to the probabilistic model allows to detect the most challenging cases inside a dataset. This approach was evaluated on the BRATS 2017 and ACDC datasets showing its relevance for quality control assessment.
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This work was partially funded by the French government, through the \(\hbox {UCA}^{\mathrm {JEDI}}\) “Investments in the Future” project managed by the National Research Agency (ANR) with the reference number ANR-15-IDEX-01 and supported by the Inria Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée,“NEF” computation cluster.
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Audelan, B., Delingette, H. (2019). Unsupervised Quality Control of Image Segmentation Based on Bayesian Learning. In: Shen, D., et al. Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2019. MICCAI 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11765. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32245-8_3
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