Deep learning-based models in medical imaging often struggle to generalize effectively to new scans due to data heterogeneity arising from differences in hardware, acquisition parameters, population, and artifacts. This limitation presents a significant challenge in adopting machine learning models for clinical practice. We propose an unsupervised method for robust domain adaptation in brain MRI segmentation by leveraging MRI-specific augmentation techniques. Compared to synthetic augmentation methods that often lack clarity about the factors contributing to improved robustness, we enable a clearer understanding of how specific artifacts impact the model’s performance, facilitating causal analysis of segmentation errors. To evaluate the effectiveness of our method, we conduct extensive experiments across diverse datasets, modalities, and segmentation tasks, comparing against the state-of-the-art methods. The results show that our proposed approach achieves high accuracy, exhibits broad applicability, and showcases remarkable robustness against domain shift in various tasks, surpassing the state-of-the-art performance in the majority of cases.

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Data Augmentation-Based Unsupervised Domain Adaptation in Medical Imaging

  • Sebastian Nørgaard Llambias,
  • Mads Nielsen,
  • Mostafa Mehdipour Ghazi

摘要

Deep learning-based models in medical imaging often struggle to generalize effectively to new scans due to data heterogeneity arising from differences in hardware, acquisition parameters, population, and artifacts. This limitation presents a significant challenge in adopting machine learning models for clinical practice. We propose an unsupervised method for robust domain adaptation in brain MRI segmentation by leveraging MRI-specific augmentation techniques. Compared to synthetic augmentation methods that often lack clarity about the factors contributing to improved robustness, we enable a clearer understanding of how specific artifacts impact the model’s performance, facilitating causal analysis of segmentation errors. To evaluate the effectiveness of our method, we conduct extensive experiments across diverse datasets, modalities, and segmentation tasks, comparing against the state-of-the-art methods. The results show that our proposed approach achieves high accuracy, exhibits broad applicability, and showcases remarkable robustness against domain shift in various tasks, surpassing the state-of-the-art performance in the majority of cases.