Contour-Aware Multi-Expert Model for Ambiguous Medical Image Segmentation

• Published in: IEEE transactions on medical imaging Vol. 44; no. 8; pp. 3284 - 3298
• Main Authors: Wang, Jiangnan, Zhou, Caixia, Huang, Yaping
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States IEEE 01.08.2025
• Subjects: Accuracy; Algorithms; Ambiguous medical images; Annotations; Codes; contour-based segmentation; Diffusion models; Humans; Image Processing, Computer-Assisted - methods; Image segmentation; Medical diagnostic imaging; Predictive models; Probabilistic logic; Stochastic processes; Uncertainty; uncertainty estimation

Medical image segmentation is highly challenging due to the uncertainties caused by the inherent ambiguous regions and expert knowledge variations. Some recent works explore the uncertainties and produce multiple outputs to obtain more robust results. However, the quality of the boundary areas remai...