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Bayesian QuickNAT: Model uncertainty in deep whole-brain segmentation for structure-wise quality control.

Abhijit Guha Roy¹, Sailesh Conjeti², Nassir Navab³

¹Artificial Intelligence in Medical Imaging (AI-Med), Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, LMU, München, Germany; Computer Aided Medical Procedures, Department of Informatics, Technical University of Munich, Germany.

|March 31, 2019

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Bayesian QuickNAT offers automated quality control for brain MRI segmentation using uncertainty metrics. Structure-wise uncertainty reliably predicts segmentation accuracy, enhancing large-scale data analysis.

Keywords:

Brain segmentation Deep learning Group analysis Model uncertainty Quality control

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Area of Science:

Neuroimaging
Artificial Intelligence
Medical Image Analysis

Background:

Automated brain segmentation is crucial for analyzing MRI scans.
Assessing the quality of automated segmentation, especially in large datasets, remains challenging.
Deep learning methods offer potential but require robust quality control mechanisms.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce Bayesian QuickNAT, a novel framework for automated quality control of whole-brain segmentation in MRI T1 scans.
To develop inherent measures of segmentation uncertainty for quality assessment at both voxel and structure levels.
To enable reliable group analysis on large-scale neuroimaging data repositories.

Main Methods:

Utilized a Bayesian fully convolutional neural network with Monte Carlo (MC) sampling (dropout enabled at test time) to estimate model uncertainty.
Generated voxel-wise uncertainty maps using entropy over MC samples.
Developed four structure-wise uncertainty metrics, including intersection over union across MC samples, for segmentation quality control.

Main Results:

Structure-wise uncertainty metrics demonstrated high correlation with Dice scores derived from manual annotations, serving as inherent quality indicators.
The intersection over union across MC samples proved to be a suitable proxy for the Dice score.
Experiments on diverse datasets confirmed the robustness of the proposed uncertainty metrics across varying ages, pathologies, and imaging artifacts.

Conclusions:

Bayesian QuickNAT provides effective automated quality control for brain MRI segmentation by quantifying uncertainty.
Structure-wise uncertainty metrics are reliable predictors of segmentation accuracy and can be used for quality assessment.
The proposed framework facilitates reliable group analyses on large neuroimaging datasets by incorporating confidence measures.