학술논문

Revamping Blood Vessel Edge-Buffer Labels: A Self-Correcting Region Supervision
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Signal Processing Letters IEEE Signal Process. Lett. Signal Processing Letters, IEEE. 31:586-590 2024
Subject
Signal Processing and Analysis
Computing and Processing
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Noise measurement
Training
Biomedical imaging
Correlation
Image edge detection
Federated learning
Task analysis
Blood vessel segmentation
noisy labels
region supervision
self-correction
Language
ISSN
1070-9908
1558-2361
Abstract
Deep learning-based vessel segmentation tasks serve as important auxiliary tools for disease diagnosis. However, the region connecting the foreground and background, which is named the edge-buffer region in this letter, suffers from noisy labels and a lack of discriminative features due to low contrast and limitations of imaging devices. To address these limitations, we propose a self-correcting region supervision to revamp the noisy labels in the edge-buffer region. Furthermore, we introduce the concept of treating the edge-buffer region independently from the foreground and background, leveraging the designed contrastive learning method and edge-blur-guided module to enhance discriminative learning ability and collaborative learning ability across different regions, respectively. The experimental results comparison with other classical and state-of-the-art methods on DRIVE, CHASEDB1, and DCA1 datasets has proven the effectiveness of the proposed methods.