Deep neural network to locate and segment brain tumors outperformed the expert technicians who created the training data

J. Ross Mitchell, Konstantinos Kamnitsas, Kyle Singleton, Scott A. Whitmire, Kamala Clark-Swanson, Sara Ranjbar, Cassandra Rickertsen, Sandra K. Johnston, Kathleen M. Egan, Dana E. Rollison,

Journal of Medical Imaging · 2020 · 16 citations · 25 references

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This was the first objective comparison of automated and human segmentation using a blinded controlled assessment study. Our DL system learned to outperform its "human teachers" and produced output that was better, on average, than its training data.

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