Siemens Healthineers Ag

Jingya Liu

Ali Kamen

Bin Lou

For uncertainty estimation for a machine-learned model prediction in medical imaging, a distribution in latent space is sampled to determine uncertainty in machine-learned model prediction. For example, a segmentation is output by a machine-learned model in response to input of multi-parametric data. A latent space generated by the machine-learned model is used to estimate the uncertainty of the segmentation, such as a segmentation of a prostate lesion. The model of Kohl, et al., may be used as the variational auto encoder generates a latent space representing the distribution of the training data, which latent space may be used to determine uncertainty.

Uncertainty estimation in medical imaging

Systems and methods for determining whether input medical images are out-of-distribution of training images on which a machine learning based medical imaging analysis network is trained are provided. One or more input medical images of a patient are received. One or more reconstructed images of the one or more input medical images are generated using a machine learning based reconstruction network. It is determined whether the one or more input medical images are out-of-distribution from training images on which a machine learning based medical imaging analysis network is trained based on the one or more input medical images and the one or more reconstructed images. The determination of whether the one or more input medical images are out-of-distribution from the training images is output.

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