Evaluation of mediastinal lymph node segmentation of heterogeneous CT data with full and weak supervision

Alireza Mehrtash, Erik Ziegler, Tagwa Idris, Bhanusupriya Somarouthu, Trinity Urban, Ann S. LaCasce, Heather Jacene, Annick D. Van den Abbeele, Steve Pieper, Gordon J. Harris, Ron Kikinis, Tina Kapur

Abstract: Highlights•Proposed lymph node segmenters generalized well on an unseen heterogeneous dataset.•Patient disease and imaging parameters did not impact the segmentation performance.•Weakly supervision achieved comparable performance to fully supervised training.