Using Out-of-the-Box Frameworks for Contrastive Unpaired Image Translation for Vestibular Schwannoma and Cochlea Segmentation: An approach for the crossMoDA Challenge
This work addresses medical image segmentation for vestibular schwannoma patients, but it is incremental as it uses out-of-the-box frameworks without novel method development.
The study tackled domain adaptation for segmenting vestibular schwannomas and cochleas in MRI by applying existing frameworks like CUT for unpaired image translation and nnU-Net for segmentation, achieving mean Dice scores of 0.8299 in validation and 0.8253 in test phases, ranking 3rd in the crossMoDA challenge.
The purpose of this study is to apply and evaluate out-of-the-box deep learning frameworks for the crossMoDA challenge. We use the CUT model, a model for unpaired image-to-image translation based on patchwise contrastive learning and adversarial learning, for domain adaptation from contrast-enhanced T1 MR to high-resolution T2 MR. As data augmentation, we generate additional images with vestibular schwannomas with lower signal intensity. For the segmentation task, we use the nnU-Net framework. Our final submission achieved mean Dice scores of 0.8299 in the validation phase and 0.8253 in the test phase. Our method ranked 3rd in the crossMoDA challenge.