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Metrics reloaded: Pitfalls and recommendations for image analysis validation

Maier-Hein, Lena; Reinke, Annika; Christodoulou, Evangelia; Glocker, Ben; Godau, Patrick; Isensee, Fabian; Kleesiek, Jens; ... Jäger, Paul F; + view all (2022) Metrics reloaded: Pitfalls and recommendations for image analysis validation. arXiv.org: Ithaca (NY), USA. Green open access

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Abstract

Increasing evidence shows that flaws in machine learning (ML) algorithm validation are an underestimated global problem. Particularly in automatic biomedical image analysis, chosen performance metrics often do not reflect the domain interest, thus failing to adequately measure scientific progress and hindering translation of ML techniques into practice. To overcome this, our large international expert consortium created Metrics Reloaded, a comprehensive framework guiding researchers in the problem-aware selection of metrics. Following the convergence of ML methodology across application domains, Metrics Reloaded fosters the convergence of validation methodology. The framework was developed in a multi-stage Delphi process and is based on the novel concept of a problem fingerprint - a structured representation of the given problem that captures all aspects that are relevant for metric selection, from the domain interest to the properties of the target structure(s), data set and algorithm output. Based on the problem fingerprint, users are guided through the process of choosing and applying appropriate validation metrics while being made aware of potential pitfalls. Metrics Reloaded targets image analysis problems that can be interpreted as a classification task at image, object or pixel level, namely image-level classification, object detection, semantic segmentation, and instance segmentation tasks. To improve the user experience, we implemented the framework in the Metrics Reloaded online tool, which also provides a point of access to explore weaknesses, strengths and specific recommendations for the most common validation metrics. The broad applicability of our framework across domains is demonstrated by an instantiation for various biological and medical image analysis use cases.

Type: Working / discussion paper
Title: Metrics reloaded: Pitfalls and recommendations for image analysis validation
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2206.01653
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2206.01653
Language: English
Additional information: © The Authors 2023. Original content in this paper is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10183143
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