给师生模型加反馈机制,防止错误标签自我强化。
DualFete: Revisiting Teacher-Student Interactions from a Feedback Perspective for Semi-supervised Medical Image Segmentation
- 学生向老师反馈伪标签引起的更新,让老师修正标签。
- 在三个医学图像数据集上分割精度提升显著,有效抑制错误传播。
- 适合做半监督医学图像分割的研究者和医疗AI开发者。
师生框架是半监督学习的主流范式,但在医学图像分割中因图像固有模糊性易受错误标注影响,且学生迭代确认错误会导致错误自我强化。现有方法多依赖外部改造框架,忽视其内在纠错潜力。本文提出一种反馈机制,让学生对教师伪标签引发的更新进行反馈,使教师可据此优化标签。核心包含两个组件:反馈归属器(识别触发学生更新的伪标签)与反馈接收器(确定反馈作用位置)。进一步提出双教师反馈模型,通过跨教师监督解决分歧,避免一致错误,增强反馈动态性。在三个医学图像基准测试中验证了该方法在抑制错误传播方面的有效性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
The teacher-student paradigm has emerged as a canonical framework in semi-supervised learning. When applied to medical image segmentation, the paradigm faces challenges due to inherent image ambiguities, making it particularly vulnerable to erroneous supervision. Crucially, the student's iterative reconfirmation of these errors leads to self-reinforcing bias. While some studies attempt to mitigate this bias, they often rely on external modifications to the conventional teacher-student framework, overlooking its intrinsic potential for error correction. In response, this work introduces a feedback mechanism into the teacher-student framework to counteract error reconfirmations. Here, the student provides feedback on the changes induced by the teacher's pseudo-labels, enabling the teacher to refine these labels accordingly. We specify that this interaction hinges on two key components: the feedback attributor, which designates pseudo-labels triggering the student's update, and the feedback receiver, which determines where to apply this feedback. Building on this, a dual-teacher feedback model is further proposed, which allows more dynamics in the feedback loop and fosters more gains by resolving disagreements through cross-teacher supervision while avoiding consistent errors. Comprehensive evaluations on three medical image benchmarks demonstrate the method's effectiveness in addressing error propagation in semi-supervised medical image segmentation.
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