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Active Learning enhances Differentiable NAS for 3D medical image segmentation

Researchers have developed Active-DiNTS, a novel approach that integrates Active Learning with differentiable Neural Architecture Search (NAS) for 3D medical image segmentation. This method jointly optimizes network topology and label curation, significantly reducing the need for extensive annotation budgets and multi-GPU clusters. By ranking unlabeled data using uncertainty signals like entropy, variance, or standard deviation, Active-DiNTS efficiently selects volumes for annotation, leading to improved segmentation accuracy on benchmarks like the Medical Segmentation Decathlon. AI

IMPACT This approach could significantly reduce the computational and data annotation costs for developing specialized AI models in medical imaging.

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Active Learning enhances Differentiable NAS for 3D medical image segmentation

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  1. arXiv cs.NE (Neural & Evolutionary) TIER_1 English(EN) · André C. P. L. F. de Carvalho ·

    Active-DiNTS: Active Differentiable Network Topology Search

    Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has proved to be a strong alternative to manual network design, but applying it to 3D medical image segmentation is limited by two well-known costs, large annotation budgets and multi-GPU clusters. Thus, this paper introduces Active-DiNTS (Active …