NDLI: Balancing the Role of Priors in Multi-Observer Segmentation Evaluation

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Author	Zhu, Yaoyao Huang, Xiaolei Wang, Wei Lopresti, Daniel Long, Rodney Antani, Sameer Xue, Zhiyun Thoma, George
Copyright Year	2008
Abstract	Comparison of a group of multiple observer segmentations is known to be a challenging problem. A good segmentation evaluation method would allow different segmentations not only to be compared, but to be combined to generate a “true” segmentation with higher consensus. Numerous multi-observer segmentation evaluation approaches have been proposed in the literature, and STAPLE in particular probabilistically estimates the true segmentation by optimal combination of observed segmentations and a prior model of the truth. An Expectation–Maximization (EM) algorithm, STAPLE’s convergence to the desired local minima depends on good initializations for the truth prior and the observer-performance prior. However, accurate modeling of the initial truth prior is nontrivial. Moreover, among the two priors, the truth prior always dominates so that in certain scenarios when meaningful observer-performance priors are available, STAPLE can not take advantage of that information. In this paper, we propose a Bayesian decision formulation of the problem that permits the two types of prior knowledge to be integrated in a complementary manner in four cases with differing application purposes: (1) with known truth prior; (2) with observer prior; (3) with neither truth prior nor observer prior; and (4) with both truth prior and observer prior. The third and fourth cases are not discussed (or effectively ignored) by STAPLE, and in our research we propose a new method to combine multiple-observer segmentations based on the maximum a posterior (MAP) principle, which respects the observer prior regardless of the availability of the truth prior. Based on the four scenarios, we have developed a web-based software application that implements the flexible segmentation evaluation framework for digitized uterine cervix images. Experiment results show that our framework has flexibility in effectively integrating different priors for multi-observer segmentation evaluation and it also generates results comparing favorably to those by the STAPLE algorithm and the Majority Vote Rule.
Starting Page	185
Ending Page	207
Page Count	23
File Format	PDF
ISSN	19398018
Journal	Journal of Signal Processing Systems
Volume Number	55
Issue Number	1-3
e-ISSN	19398115
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2008-05-28
Publisher Place	Boston
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Ground truth Bayesian decision Precision Segmentation Multi-observer Sensitivity Specificity STAPLE Validation Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics Pattern Recognition Image Processing and Computer Vision Electrical Engineering Circuits and Systems Signal, Image and Speech Processing
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Theoretical Computer Science Signal Processing Control and Systems Engineering Information Systems Modeling and Simulation Hardware and Architecture

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