Semi-supervised learning (SSL) is an effective strategy for extracting useful information from unlabeled datasets to improve deep model performance. SSL is widely used in medical image segmentation to alleviate the burden of expensive pixel-level labeling. Most existing SSL-based medical image segmentation methods use all unlabeled data equally to update the model via unsupervised loss. However, not all unlabeled data are applicable to the same model training process due to differences in data quality and importance. In this study, we propose a dual-decoder data decoupling training-based semi-supervised medical image segmentation network (DD-Net) that enables the model to focus on challenging regions. DD-Net decouples the prediction of unlabeled data into data with different functions based on the degree of confidence matching from two student decoders and adopts different optimization strategies for different functional data. Specifically, for high- reliability part, we employ cross pseudo supervision learning to improve the reliability of model prediction. For divergent predictions, we propose mutual matching learning to guide the model to learn richer information in high uncertainty data by assigning high entropy to the prediction data. For low-confidence prediction, we employ reinforcement consistency learning to enhance the context representations of the model to effectively extract important details, such as edges and contours, from unlabeled data. Experiments on four medical challenging image datasets demonstrate that our method outperforms existing state-of-the-art methods. The code is available at https://github.com/TaifengHuang/DD-Net.
基金:
Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province of China [F2021201020]; Innovation Capacity Enhancement Program-Science and Technology Platform Project, Hebei Province of China [22567623H]; National Natural Science Foundation of China [62403199]; Natural Science Foundation Youth Science Fund Project of Hebei Province of China [F2024502006]; Fundamen-tal Research Funds for the Central Universities of China [2024MS138]
第一作者机构:[1]Hebei Univ, Coll Math & Informat Sci, Wusi Rd 180, Baoding 071000, Hebei, Peoples R China[2]Hebei Univ, Hebei Key Lab Machine Learning & Computat Intellig, Wusi Rd 180, Baoding 071000, Hebei, Peoples R China
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推荐引用方式(GB/T 7714):
Wang Bing,Huang Taifeng,Yang Shuo,et al.Dual-decoder data decoupling training for semi-supervised medical image segmentation[J].BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING AND CONTROL.2025,100:doi:10.1016/j.bspc.2024.106984.
APA:
Wang, Bing,Huang, Taifeng,Yang, Shuo,Yang, Ying,Zhai, Junhai&Zhang, Xin.(2025).Dual-decoder data decoupling training for semi-supervised medical image segmentation.BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING AND CONTROL,100,
MLA:
Wang, Bing,et al."Dual-decoder data decoupling training for semi-supervised medical image segmentation".BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING AND CONTROL 100.(2025)