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The Role of MRI Physics in Brain Segmentation CNNs: Achieving Acquisition Invariance and Instructive Uncertainties

Borges, P; Shaw, R; Varsavsky, T; Klaser, K; Thomas, D; Drobnjak, I; Ourselin, S; (2021) The Role of MRI Physics in Brain Segmentation CNNs: Achieving Acquisition Invariance and Instructive Uncertainties. In: Simulation and Synthesis in Medical Imaging. SASHIMI 2021. (pp. pp. 67-76). Springer: Cham, Switzerland. Green open access

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Abstract

Being able to adequately process and combine data arising from different sites is crucial in neuroimaging, but is difficult, owing to site, sequence and acquisition-parameter dependent biases. It is important therefore to design algorithms that are not only robust to images of differing contrasts, but also be able to generalise well to unseen ones, with a quantifiable measure of uncertainty. In this paper we demonstrate the efficacy of a physics-informed, uncertainty-aware, segmentation network that employs augmentation-time MR simulations and homogeneous batch feature stratification to achieve acquisition invariance. We show that the proposed approach also accurately extrapolates to out-of-distribution sequence samples, providing well calibrated volumetric bounds on these. We demonstrate a significant improvement in terms of coefficients of variation, backed by uncertainty based volumetric validation.

Type: Proceedings paper
Title: The Role of MRI Physics in Brain Segmentation CNNs: Achieving Acquisition Invariance and Instructive Uncertainties
Event: SASHIMI 2021: Simulation and Synthesis in Medical Imaging
ISBN-13: 9783030875916
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-87592-3_7
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87592-3_7
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology > Brain Repair and Rehabilitation
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Med Phys and Biomedical Eng
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10136733
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