Summary of Uu-mamba: Uncertainty-aware U-mamba For Cardiovascular Segmentation, by Ting Yu Tsai et al.
UU-Mamba: Uncertainty-aware U-Mamba for Cardiovascular Segmentation
by Ting Yu Tsai, Li Lin, Shu Hu, Connie W. Tsao, Xin Li, Ming-Ching Chang, Hongtu Zhu, Xin Wang
First submitted to arxiv on: 22 Sep 2024
Categories
- Main: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed UU-Mamba model is an extension of the U-Mamba architecture designed to improve generalization and robustness in cardiac and vascular segmentation tasks. It incorporates Sharpness-Aware Minimization (SAM) to target flatter minima in the loss landscape, enhancing its ability to generalize well even with small annotated datasets. The model also uses an uncertainty-aware loss function that combines region-based, distribution-based, and pixel-based components to capture both local and global features. This results in superior performance compared to leading models such as TransUNet, Swin-Unet, nnUNet, and nnFormer on the ImageCAS, Aorta, and ACDC datasets. Furthermore, the paper provides a comprehensive evaluation of the model’s robustness and segmentation accuracy through extensive experiments. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The UU-Mamba model is designed to improve the way computers segment (identify) heart structures from images. It does this by using a combination of techniques that help it generalize well even with limited training data. The model uses something called Sharpness-Aware Minimization, which helps it find better solutions in complex problems. It also has an “uncertainty-aware” loss function that helps it capture both big and small features in the images. This results in better performance than other models on three different datasets: ImageCAS, Aorta, and ACDC. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Generalization » Loss function » Sam » Unet
