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New method estimates CNN confidence in medical image segmentation

Researchers have developed a new method for estimating the confidence of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in medical image segmentation tasks. Unlike existing approaches that require custom architectures or retraining, this voxel-based method can be added to existing segmentation pipelines without additional training. The proposed technique also provides a single confidence score derived from uncertainty maps, which has shown promise in predicting segmentation performance on unseen data across various regions and modalities. AI

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New method estimates CNN confidence in medical image segmentation

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Baris Oguz, Xing Yao, Claudia Tawil, Alison Pouch, Brett Byram, Gabriel Arenas, Nadav Schwartz, Ipek Oguz ·

    Segmentation Confidence for Arbitrary CNNs

    arXiv:2610.37431v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Convolutional neural networks (CNN) are widely used for medical image segmentation. However, they lack an inherent measure of confidence. Existing methods for estimating prediction uncertainty often require a custom network architec…