Calibrating the Dice Loss to Handle Neural Network Overconfidence for Biomedical Image Segmentation.

The Dice similarity coefficient (DSC) is both a widely used metric and loss function for biomedical image segmentation due to its robustness to class imbalance. However, it is well known that the DSC loss is poorly calibrated, resulting in overconfident predictions that cannot be usefully interprete...

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Publicado en:Journal of Digital Imaging Vol. 36; no. 2; pp. 739 - 753
Autores principales: Yeung, Michael, Rundo, Leonardo, Nan, Yang, Sala, Evis, Schönlieb, Carola-Bibiane, Yang, Guang
Formato: diagnostic images equations & formulas pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Springer Nature Apr2023
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          Yeung, Michael
          Rundo, Leonardo
          Nan, Yang
          Sala, Evis
          Schönlieb, Carola-Bibiane
          Yang, Guang
        affil: Department of Radiology, University of Cambridge, Hills Rd, CB2 0QQ, Cambridge, UK
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          Image Processing, Computer Assisted Methods
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          Models, Statistical
          Calibration
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          Diagnostic Errors Prevention and Control
          Imaging, Three-Dimensional
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          Recall Bias
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      ab: The Dice similarity coefficient (DSC) is both a widely used metric and loss function for biomedical image segmentation due to its robustness to class imbalance. However, it is well known that the DSC loss is poorly calibrated, resulting in overconfident predictions that cannot be usefully interpreted in biomedical and clinical practice. Performance is often the only metric used to evaluate segmentations produced by deep neural networks, and calibration is often neglected. However, calibration is important for translation into biomedical and clinical practice, providing crucial contextual information to model predictions for interpretation by scientists and clinicians. In this study, we provide a simple yet effective extension of the DSC loss, named the DSC++ loss, that selectively modulates the penalty associated with overconfident, incorrect predictions. As a standalone loss function, the DSC++ loss achieves significantly improved calibration over the conventional DSC loss across six well-validated open-source biomedical imaging datasets, including both 2D binary and 3D multi-class segmentation tasks. Similarly, we observe significantly improved calibration when integrating the DSC++ loss into four DSC-based loss functions. Finally, we use softmax thresholding to illustrate that well calibrated outputs enable tailoring of recall-precision bias, which is an important post-processing technique to adapt the model predictions to suit the biomedical or clinical task. The DSC++ loss overcomes the major limitation of the DSC loss, providing a suitable loss function for training deep learning segmentation models for use in biomedical and clinical practice. Source code is available at https://github.com/mlyg/DicePlusPlus.
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