Deep Anatomical Federated Network (Dafne): an open client/server framework for the continuous collaborative improvement of deep-learning-based medical image segmentation

Semantic segmentation is a crucial step to extract quantitative information from medical (and, specifically, radiological) images to aid the diagnostic process, clinical follow-up. and to generate biomarkers for clinical research. In recent years, machine learning algorithms have become the primary tool for this task. However, its real-world performance is heavily reliant on the comprehensiveness of training data. Dafne is the first decentralized, collaborative solution that implements continuously evolving deep learning models exploiting the collective knowledge of the users of the system. In the Dafne workflow, the result of each automated segmentation is refined by the user through an integrated interface, so that the new information is used to continuously expand the training pool via federated incremental learning. The models deployed through Dafne are able to improve their performance over time and to generalize to data types not seen in the training sets, thus becoming a viable and practical solution for real-life medical segmentation tasks.Comment: 10 pages (main body), 5 figures. Work partially presented at the 2021 RSNA conference and at the 2023 ISMRM conference In this new version: added author and change in the acknowledgmen

Dataset with segmentations of 117 important anatomical structures in 1228 CT images

<p>Info: This is version 2 of the TotalSegmentator dataset.<br><br>In 1228 CT images we segmented 117 anatomical structures covering a majority of relevant classes for most use cases. The CT images were randomly sampled from clinical routine, thus representing a real world dataset which generalizes to clinical application. The dataset contains a wide range of different pathologies, scanners, sequences and institutions.</p><p>Link to a copy of this dataset on Dropbox for much quicker download: <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/oq0fsz8oauory204g8o6f/Totalsegmentator_dataset_v201.zip?rlkey=afnl2ixhqca2ukkf1v9p6jz7p&dl=0">Dropbox Link</a></p><p>Overview of differences to v1 of this dataset: <a href="https://github.com/wasserth/TotalSegmentator/blob/master/resources/improvements_in_v2.md">here</a></p><p>A small subset of this dataset with only 102 subjects for quick download+exploration can be found here: <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8367169">here</a></p><p>You can find a segmentation model trained on this dataset <a href="https://github.com/wasserth/TotalSegmentator">here</a>.<br><br>More details about the dataset can be found in the corresponding <a href="https://doi.org/10.1148/ryai.230024">paper</a> (the paper describes v1 of the dataset). Please cite this paper if you use the dataset.</p><p>This dataset was created by the department of <a href="https://www.unispital-basel.ch/en/radiologie-nuklearmedizin/forschung-radiologie-nuklearmedizin">Research and Analysis at University Hospital Basel</a>.</p><p><strong>UPDATE</strong>: On 2023-10-27 we uploaded version 2.0.1 which fixes broken files.</p&gt