Abstract: Noisy labels can significantly affect the performance of deep neural networks (DNNs). In medical image segmentation tasks, annotations are error-prone due to the high demand in annotation time and in the annotators' expertise. Existing methods mostly tackle label noise in classification tasks. Their independent-noise assumptions do not fit label noise in segmentation task. In this paper, we propose a novel noise model for segmentation problems that encodes spatial correlation and bias, which are prominent in segmentation annotations. Further, to mitigate such label noise, we propose a label correction method to recover true label progressively. We provide theoretical guarantees of the correctness of the proposed method. Experiments show that our approach outperforms current state-of-the-art methods on both synthetic and real-world noisy annotations.
Yao, Jiachen, Yikai Zhang, Songzhu Zheng, Mayank Goswami, Prateek Prasanna, and Chao Chen. 2023. “Learning to Segment from Noisy Annotations: A Spatial Correction Approach.” https://openreview.net/pdf?id=Qc_OopMEBnC.
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