Summary of Radioactive: 3d Radiological Interactive Segmentation Benchmark, by Constantin Ulrich and Tassilo Wald and Emily Tempus and Maximilian Rokuss and Paul F. Jaeger and Klaus Maier-hein
RadioActive: 3D Radiological Interactive Segmentation Benchmark
by Constantin Ulrich, Tassilo Wald, Emily Tempus, Maximilian Rokuss, Paul F. Jaeger, Klaus Maier-Hein
First submitted to arxiv on: 12 Nov 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed RadioActive benchmark aims to overcome limitations in current interactive segmentation approaches, which are inspired by META’s Segment Anything model. The existing methods have achieved notable advancements but come with substantial limitations that hinder their practical application in 3D radiological scenarios. The limitations include unrealistic human interaction requirements, a lack of iterative interactive refinement, and insufficient evaluation experiments. To address these challenges, the RadioActive benchmark offers a comprehensive and reproducible evaluation of interactive segmentation methods in realistic, clinically relevant scenarios. It includes diverse datasets, target structures, and interactive segmentation methods, as well as a flexible, extendable codebase that allows seamless integration of new models and prompting strategies. The authors also introduce advanced prompting techniques to enable 2D models on 3D data by reducing the needed number of interaction steps, enabling a fair comparison. The results show that surprisingly, the performance of slice-wise prompted approaches can match native 3D methods, despite the domain gap. This challenges the current literature and highlights that models not specifically trained on medical data can outperform specialized medical methods. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary RadioActive is a new benchmark for interactive segmentation in 3D medical imaging. Currently, popular methods have some big problems that make them hard to use in real-world situations. These methods need too much human interaction, don’t let you refine your results, and aren’t tested well enough. To fix these issues, RadioActive offers a way to test and compare different models and techniques. It includes many different datasets, types of structures, and ways to interact with the model. This allows researchers to easily try out new ideas and compare them to others. The authors also developed some new techniques that make it easier for 2D models to work on 3D data. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Prompting
