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The Medical Segmentation Decathlon

2022· article· en· 1,202 citations· W3172681723 on OpenAlex· 10.1038/s41467-022-30695-9

Why is this work in the frame?

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

Canadian affiliationAn author listed a Canadian institution. This is the only route the usual frame has.

Full frame distilled prediction

Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

Candidate categories
Science and technology studies, Research integrity
Consensus categories
none
Domain
Candidate signal: noneConsensus signal: none
Study design
Candidate signal: Not applicableConsensus signal: none
Genre
Candidate signal: EmpiricalConsensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score
0.911
Threshold uncertainty score
1.000
Validation status
machine_predicted_unvalidated · codex-gemma-dda1882f352a

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Opus teacher head0.013
GPT teacher head0.356
Teacher spread
0.343 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation status
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Abstract

International challenges have become the de facto standard for comparative assessment of image analysis algorithms. Although segmentation is the most widely investigated medical image processing task, the various challenges have been organized to focus only on specific clinical tasks. We organized the Medical Segmentation Decathlon (MSD)-a biomedical image analysis challenge, in which algorithms compete in a multitude of both tasks and modalities to investigate the hypothesis that a method capable of performing well on multiple tasks will generalize well to a previously unseen task and potentially outperform a custom-designed solution. MSD results confirmed this hypothesis, moreover, MSD winner continued generalizing well to a wide range of other clinical problems for the next two years. Three main conclusions can be drawn from this study: (1) state-of-the-art image segmentation algorithms generalize well when retrained on unseen tasks; (2) consistent algorithmic performance across multiple tasks is a strong surrogate of algorithmic generalizability; (3) the training of accurate AI segmentation models is now commoditized to scientists that are not versed in AI model training.

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The record

Venue
Nature Communications
Topic
Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging
Field
Medicine
Canadian institutions
Queen's UniversityPolytechnique Montréal
Funders
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and StrokeNIH Clinical CenterNational Cancer InstituteNational Institutes of HealthEngineering and Physical Sciences Research CouncilKWF KankerbestrijdingNational Institute for Health and Care ResearchSiemens HealthineersUK Research and InnovationNederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk OnderzoekWellcome Trust
Keywords
Generalizability theorySegmentationComputer scienceTask (project management)Set (abstract data type)Artificial intelligenceMachine learningImage segmentationModalitiesImage (mathematics)Range (aeronautics)Pattern recognition (psychology)Mathematics
Has abstract in OpenAlex
yes