Self-Supervised Learning for Organs At Risk and Tumor Segmentation with Uncertainty Quantification

Ilkin Isler*, Debesh Jha, Curtis Lisle, Justin Rineer, Patrick Kelly, Bulent Aydogan, Mohamed Abazeed, Damla Turgut, Ulas Bagci

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Abstract

In this study, our goal is to show the impact of self-supervised pre-training of transformers for organ at risk (OAR) and tumor segmentation as compared to costly fully-supervised learning. The proposed algorithm is called Monte Carlo Transformer based U-Net (MC-Swin-U). Unlike many other available models, our approach presents uncertainty quantification with Monte Carlo dropout strategy while generating its voxel-wise prediction. We test and validate the proposed model on both public and one private datasets and evaluate the gross tumor volume (GTV) as well as nearby risky organs' boundaries. We show that self-supervised pre-training approach improves the segmentation scores significantly while providing additional benefits for avoiding large-scale annotation costs.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationInternational Conference on Electrical, Computer, Communications and Mechatronics Engineering, ICECCME 2023
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9798350322972
DOIs
StatePublished - 2023
Event2023 International Conference on Electrical, Computer, Communications and Mechatronics Engineering, ICECCME 2023 - Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
Duration: Jul 19 2023Jul 21 2023

Publication series

NameInternational Conference on Electrical, Computer, Communications and Mechatronics Engineering, ICECCME 2023

Conference

Conference2023 International Conference on Electrical, Computer, Communications and Mechatronics Engineering, ICECCME 2023
Country/TerritorySpain
CityTenerife, Canary Islands
Period7/19/237/21/23

Funding

This project is supported by the NIH funding: R01-CA246704 and R01-CA240639, and FDOH (Florida Department of Health) through the James and Esther King Biomedical Research Program-20K04.

Keywords

  • Deep learning
  • Organs at risk
  • Self-supervised learning
  • Swin Transformer
  • Uncertainty quantification

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Instrumentation

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