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Study Reveals Instability in Surface Water Segmentation Model Rankings

Research on Sen1Floods11 shows model rankings vary by seed and geography, requiring distinct evidence for deployment claims.

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Close orderings of model configurations vary across different seeds and geographic weighting schemes in the Sen1Floods11 evaluation. [1] Performance evaluation for surface-water segmentation commonly uses an aggregate metric such as global intersection-over-union (IoU) to rank model configurations. [2] The authors conclude that aggregate metrics remain useful for ranking complete configurations, but ranking stability, component attribution, input reliance, and deployment scope require distinct evidence. [3] The cross-modal student achieved the highest three-seed mean Intersection-over-Union (IoU) on the Sen1Floods11 dataset. [4] On the challenge's five-fold split, the mean Dice was 0.554 and mean lesion-level F1 was 0.528 without scribbles, rising to 0.751 and 0.733 after five correction rounds. [5] The autoPET/CT V challenge addresses the complexity of automated lesion segmentation in whole-body PET/CT caused by varying physiological tracer uptake patterns and differing lesion appearances across tracers. [6] The submitted model is a scribble-conditioned residual encoder U-Net operating on four input channels: CT, PET, and a sparse scribble map for each of foreground and background. [7] The researchers concluded that interaction largely compensates for how well or badly a given model segments unaided. [8]
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  1. Close orderings of model configurations vary across different seeds and geographic weighting schemes in the Sen1Floods11 evaluation. · takara.ai
  2. Performance evaluation for surface-water segmentation commonly uses an aggregate metric such as global intersection-over-union (IoU) to rank model configurations. · takara.ai
  3. The authors conclude that aggregate metrics remain useful for ranking complete configurations, but ranking stability, component attribution, input reliance, and deployment scope require distinct evidence. · takara.ai
  4. The cross-modal student achieved the highest three-seed mean Intersection-over-Union (IoU) on the Sen1Floods11 dataset. · takara.ai
  5. On the challenge's five-fold split, the mean Dice was 0.554 and mean lesion-level F1 was 0.528 without scribbles, rising to 0.751 and 0.733 after five correction rounds. · arXiv.org
  6. The autoPET/CT V challenge addresses the complexity of automated lesion segmentation in whole-body PET/CT caused by varying physiological tracer uptake patterns and differing lesion appearances across tracers. · arXiv.org
  7. The submitted model is a scribble-conditioned residual encoder U-Net operating on four input channels: CT, PET, and a sparse scribble map for each of foreground and background. · arXiv.org
  8. The researchers concluded that interaction largely compensates for how well or badly a given model segments unaided. · arXiv.org
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