Hierarchical Consistency Regularized Mean Teacher for Semi-supervised 3D Left Atrium Segmentation

Abstract

Deep learning has achieved promising segmentation performance on 3D left atrium MR images. However, annotations for segmentation tasks are expensive, costly and difficult to obtain. In this paper, we introduce a novel hierarchical consistency regularized mean teacher framework for 3D left atrium segmentation. In each iteration, the student model is optimized by multi-scale deep supervision and hierarchical consistency regularization, concurrently. Extensive experiments have shown that our method achieves competitive performance as compared with full annotation, outperforming other state-of-the-art semi-supervised segmentation methods.

arXiv commentAccepted in 43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, IEEE EMBC 2021

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