Automatic acute ischemic stroke lesion segmentation using semi-supervised learning

Bin Zhao; Chen Cao; Guohua Liu; Hong Wu; Shuxue Ding; Song Jin; Zhiyang Liu

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Automatic acute ischemic stroke lesion segmentation using semi-supervised learning

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Pith's one-line read Semi-supervised stroke lesion segmentation with only five fully labeled subjects can match fully supervised accuracy.

desk verdict A plausible semi-supervised AIS segmentation pipeline with real but modest empirical claims; the headline Dice is a point estimate on a private dataset with no error bars, and the abstract/full-text subject-count mismatch needs fixing. read the letter →

arxiv 1908.03735 v3 pith:HTRDQFY3 submitted 2019-08-10 eess.IV cs.CVcs.LG

Bin Zhao , Shuxue Ding , Hong Wu , Guohua Liu , Chen Cao , Song Jin , Zhiyang Liu This is my paper · ORCID

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keywords semi-supervisedlearningacuteischemicstrokelesionsegmentationweaklysupervisedclassactivationmapK-Meansclusteringregiongrowingdiffusion-weightedimaging

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The pith

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The reading

This paper aims to show that acute ischemic stroke lesion segmentation can be done accurately without hundreds of pixel-level annotated scans. The proposed pipeline trains a double-path classification network on 460 subjects with only slice-level weak labels, then uses K-Means clustering and a region-growing step, fine-tuned on just five fully labeled subjects, to produce final segmentations. On 150 test subjects the method reports a mean Dice coefficient of 0.642 and a lesion-wise F1 score of 0.822, close to fully supervised methods that need many more detailed annotations. If the claim holds, it would substantially lower the annotation burden for AIS segmentation while keeping clinically useful accuracy.

What carries the argument

The load-bearing mechanism is a two-pathway fusion. The DPC-Net, a VGG-16 truncated before the third max-pooling layer with an extra global-average-pooling side branch at an earlier convolution block, is trained on slice-level labels and produces two class activation maps at different resolutions; thresholding the coarse map and multiplying it by the fine map yields a probability map of suspicious lesion regions. Independently, K-Means clustering on the DWI separates hyperintense pixels, using the clinical prior that AIS lesions appear bright on DWI, and connected components of the brightest cluster form candidate regions. A region-growing algorithm then starts from probability-map pixels above $\delta$ and, when they fall inside a K-Means component, grows to fill that component, so semantic information from the network and intensity information from clustering jointly decide the final boundary. The values $K$ and $\delta$ are selected by grid search on the five fully labeled subjects.

What would settle it

Repeat the grid search on a different set of five fully labeled subjects, for example with leave-one-out over the fine-tuning set, and measure Dice on the same 150-subject test set; if the mean Dice falls well below 0.642, the reported accuracy is tied to the particular choice of five subjects rather than to the method itself.

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

The central claim is that combining weak semantic supervision with unsupervised intensity clustering yields lesion segmentations comparable to fully supervised deep networks. Concretely, the paper reports that its semi-supervised pipeline, trained on 460 weakly labeled subjects and fine-tuned with five fully labeled subjects, achieves a mean Dice coefficient of 0.642 and a lesion-wise F1 score of 0.822 on a 150-subject clinical test set, with lesion-wise precision 0.880. The method deliberately avoids generating fake labels for weakly labeled data, instead using fully labeled subjects only to tune two parameters: the cluster count $K$ in K-Means and the threshold $\delta$ in region growing. The paper further claims this design is especially sensitive to small lesions, reporting a Dice of 0.708 on a 90-subject small-lesion subset.

Load-bearing premise

The load-bearing premise is that the two parameters tuned on just five fully labeled subjects, the number of K-Means clusters and the probability threshold, keep working on the 150-patient test set rather than reflecting only those five patients.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

A hospital could build an AIS segmentation system from cheap slice-level screening labels plus a handful of detailed cases, reducing expert marking time.
The reported Dice of 0.642 is close to the 0.67 of a fully supervised DWI method, suggesting weakly supervised training need not sacrifice much accuracy.
Because the method preserves small lesions better than large ones (Dice 0.708 versus 0.543), it may be useful for lacunar infarctions, which are common but hard to spot.
The high lesion-wise precision of 0.880 means few false lesion detections per patient, which matters if the output is used to flag suspected strokes.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

The same weak-label-plus-clustering recipe could be tried on other hyperintense-lesion tasks in MRI, such as multiple sclerosis plaques, where the intensity prior and slice-level labels are similarly cheap.
A direct robustness test would vary which five subjects form the fine-tuning set; if $K$ and $\delta$ shift materially, a slightly larger fine-tuning set or a learned parameter predictor would be needed.
The K-Means branch could be replaced by a learned intensity model trained on the five fully labeled slices, potentially removing the grid search while keeping the semi-supervised structure.
A head-to-head evaluation on one shared public benchmark would show whether the annotation saving transfers across scanners, field strengths, and imaging protocols.

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Quick take: this is a modest, honest engineering paper, not a methodological breakthrough. It builds a semi-supervised pipeline for acute ischemic stroke lesion segmentation from 460 slice-level labeled subjects plus five pixel-level annotated subjects, and reports a mean Dice of 0.642 and lesion-wise F1 of 0.822 on 150 test subjects. Those numbers are plausible, but they are point estimates from a private dataset with no error bars, so treat them as provisional.

What's new: the specific pipeline—a double-path classification network (VGG-16 truncated at block 7, with a side branch at block 4) whose fused CAMs seed a K-means + region-growing refinement—is not in the cited literature. Each component is known; the combination is a reasonable engineering contribution. The paper also does several things well. It compares against U-Net and FCN-8s trained on the same five fully-labeled subjects, which is the right control for showing the value of the weakly-supervised pathway. It reports lesion-wise precision/recall/F1 in addition to Dice, and separates small (lacunar) from large lesions, which is clinically meaningful. The qualitative point that the DPC-Net probability map rejects susceptibility artifacts is supported by the examples and the CAM-baseline comparison. The writing is clear enough to reimplement the method.

Soft spots. First, the abstract says 15 fully-labeled subjects while the full text consistently says 5. That mismatch must be fixed; it undercuts trust. Second, K and delta are selected by grid search on five subjects, with no cross-validation and no confidence intervals. The stress-test concern about overfitting is real in principle, but Table 3 partly defuses it: the chosen configuration (K=6, delta=0.41) also achieves the best test Dice among the four grid points (0.642 vs 0.610, 0.594, 0.322). So the selection is not visibly overfit within this small grid. Still, n=5 is thin and the 0.642 point estimate has unknown variance. Third, there is no fully-supervised baseline trained on the same data; citing a fully-supervised method's result on a different dataset is not a same-data comparison. Fourth, no code or data is provided, so independent verification means reimplementation. The citation pattern looks normal; no self-citation issues.

Who this is for: researchers working on label-efficient medical image segmentation, specifically stroke. I'd take it seriously as a candidate for peer review, not a desk reject. The required revisions are concrete: fix the abstract, add error bars or a small cross-validation, and ideally evaluate on a public benchmark such as ISLES.

Referee Report

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Summary. The paper proposes a semi-supervised pipeline for acute ischemic stroke (AIS) lesion segmentation on diffusion-weighted images (DWI) and apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) maps. The method has three stages: a double-path classification network (DPC-Net) trained on 460 slice-level weakly labeled subjects to produce probability maps; K-Means clustering on DWI intensities to identify hyperintense candidate regions; and a region-growing step that combines the DPC-Net probability map with the K-Means clusters, using two parameters K (number of clusters) and delta (probability threshold) tuned on five fully labeled subjects. The authors report a Dice coefficient of 0.642 and a lesion-wise F1 of 0.822 on a 150-subject clinical test set, and compare with CAM-baseline, U-Net, and FCN-8s baselines trained on the same five fully labeled subjects. The central claim is that with very few pixel-level annotations, the proposed method approaches fully-supervised performance.

Significance. If the reported results are stable, the paper would be a meaningful practical contribution: it demonstrates a semi-supervised method that avoids the error-propagation of self-training, uses only slice-level weak labels plus five pixel-level annotations, and achieves Dice/F1 values in the range of fully-supervised AIS segmentation methods. The algorithmic combination of a weakly supervised CNN with an unsupervised intensity prior and a small fully labeled fine-tuning set is well motivated. The paper also reports lesion-wise metrics, which are clinically relevant given the importance of small lacunar lesions. However, the strength of this contribution rests almost entirely on the reliability of the point estimates from the 150-subject test set, since the method's two free parameters are selected on only five subjects without variance estimation.

major comments (1)

[Section 4.1 and Table 3] In Table 4, the test set is split into large (60) and small (90) lesion sets, and the proposed method achieves higher DC on small lesions (0.708) than on large ones (0.543). The discussion explains that hyperintensity distribution is uneven in large lesions, but this size-dependent behavior is not analyzed with respect to the hyperparameter tuning; since 85% of AIS are lacunar, the authors should discuss whether the grid search on five subjects may be biased toward small lesions and how this affects the generalizability of the selected K and δ.

minor comments (1)

[References] Reference [25] is an unpublished medRxiv preprint by the same group; the claim in Section 1 that 'the lesion-wise detection rate is high' for weak supervision relies on this preprint, and it would be preferable to cite a peer-reviewed source or describe the result in sufficient detail to be self-contained.

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No circularity: the reported Dice/F1 come from evaluation on a held-out test set; hyperparameter tuning on five subjects is model selection, not a circular prediction.

full rationale

This is an empirical segmentation paper, not a derivation from first principles. The central claim is that a semi-supervised pipeline (DPC-Net trained on 460 weakly-labeled subjects, K-Means clustering, and region growing with DPC-Net seeds) achieves DC 0.642 and lesion-wise F1 0.822 on a 150-subject test set. The pipeline's output is computed from DWI/ADC inputs via the network and Algorithm 1, and the evaluation uses ground-truth annotations that are not used to construct the output. The only tunable parameters, K and delta, are selected by grid search on five fully-labeled fine-tuning subjects and then applied to the separate 150-subject test set; this is standard model selection rather than fitting the evaluation metric by construction. The thresholds for comparison methods are also selected on the fine-tuning set, so the comparisons are not systematically favorable in a definitional way. The paper does cite prior work by overlapping authors, notably [25], but that citation supports a background claim about weakly-supervised detection rates and is not load-bearing for the numerical results or for the method's design choices. No equation defines the predicted segmentation in terms of the reported Dice coefficient, and no fitted parameter is renamed as a prediction. The main scientific weaknesses, such as the small fine-tuning set and lack of confidence intervals, are soundness/reproducibility concerns, not circularity.

Assumptions & free parameters 3 free parameters · 4 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The paper introduces no new physical entities and derives no equations from first principles. Its result rests on domain priors about DWI hyperintensity, the validity of CAM localization from slice-level labels, and the generalizability of hyperparameters tuned on five subjects. The only fitted numbers are K and delta, chosen by grid search on five fully-labeled subjects, plus a fixed 0.5 threshold in Eq. (1).

free parameters (3)

K (number of clusters in K-Means) = 6
Selected by grid search on 5 fully-labeled fine-tuning subjects (Section 4.1, Table 3); controls how many intensity clusters are formed and whether lesions merge with artifacts.
delta (DPC-Net probability threshold for region-growing seeds) = 0.41
Selected by grid search on the same 5 fully-labeled fine-tuning subjects (Table 3); controls which pixels can seed the region-growing step.
CAM binarization threshold in Eq. (1) = 0.5
A hand-chosen fixed threshold used to binarize the main-branch CAM before fusion with the side branch; not tuned on the fine-tuning set.

assumptions (4)

domain assumption Acute ischemic stroke lesions appear hyperintense on DWI and hypointense on ADC.
Used to justify K-Means clustering on DWI and selecting the highest-intensity cluster (Section 3.2, Algorithm 1); cited to [3].
domain assumption Magnetic susceptibility artifacts are hyperintense on DWI but lack ADC abnormality, and can be rejected using semantic information from DPC-Net.
Underlies the claim that combining DPC-Net seeds with K-Means removes false positives (Introduction, Fig. 1).
domain assumption Weak slice-level labels are sufficient to train a classifier whose CAMs provide reliable lesion localization.
The DPC-Net is trained only with slice-level labels and CAMs are used as seeds; no pixel-level supervision is used for the network (Section 3.1).
ad hoc to paper The five fully-labeled subjects used for grid search are representative enough that the selected K and delta generalize to the test population.
Without this, the reported test metrics are not a reliable estimate of performance (Section 4.1, Table 3).

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Ischemic stroke is a common disease in the elderly population, which can cause long-term disability and even death. However, the time window for treatment of ischemic stroke in its acute stage is very short. To fast localize and quantitively evaluate the acute ischemic stroke (AIS) lesions, many deep-learning-based lesion segmentation methods have been proposed in the literature, where a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) was trained on hundreds of fully labeled subjects with accurate annotations of AIS lesions. Despite that high segmentation accuracy can be achieved, the accurate labels should be annotated by experienced clinicians, and it is therefore very time-consuming to obtain a large number of fully labeled subjects. In this paper, we propose a semi-supervised method to automatically segment AIS lesions in diffusion weighted images and apparent diffusion coefficient maps. By using a large number of weakly labeled subjects and a small number of fully labeled subjects, our proposed method is able to accurately detect and segment the AIS lesions. In particular, our proposed method consists of three parts: 1) a double-path classification net (DPC-Net) trained in a weakly-supervised way is used to detect the suspicious regions of AIS lesions; 2) a pixel-level K-Means clustering algorithm is used to identify the hyperintensive regions on the DWIs; and 3) a region-growing algorithm combines the outputs of the DPC-Net and the K-Means to obtain the final precise lesion segmentation. In our experiment, we use 460 weakly labeled subjects and 15 fully labeled subjects to train and fine-tune the proposed method. By evaluating on a clinical dataset with 150 fully labeled subjects, our proposed method achieves a mean dice coefficient of 0.642, and a lesion-wise F1 score of 0.822.

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Figures reproduced from arXiv: 1908.03735 by the authors.

**Figure 1.** Challenge examples in AIS segmentation. The first row show ADC slices and the second row shows their corresponding DWI slices. The yellow arrows identify the hyperintense due to magnetic susceptibility artifacts, and the red arrows identify the hyperintense that are true AIS lesions. Best viewed in color. Recently, convolutional neural network (CNN) based methods have presented tremendous ability in image classifica… view at source ↗

**Figure 2.** Examples of the fully-labeled subjects. The first two rows show ADC slices and their corresponding DWI slices. The third row shows the annotations. Best viewed in color. yes yes no ADC DWI annotation [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_2.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 3.** Examples of the weakly-labeled subjects. The first two rows show ADC slices and their corresponding DWI slices. The third row shows the annotations, “yes” indicates that the slice has lesion and “no” indicates the opposite 2. Related work There have been extensive efforts on automatic segmentation of ischemic stroke lesion recently. We roughly divided these methods into two categories, conventional methods and CNN-b… view at source ↗

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**Figure 5.** Figure 5: Our proposed method for generating probability maps. (a) Convolution block; (b) Double [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_5.png]

**Figure 6.** Figure 6: Examples of lesion segmentation, CAMs and PMs. The first two [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_6.png]

**Figure 7.** Figure 7: Examples of clustering map. The first two columns show the original [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_7.png]

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