2022 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Quality Monitoring of Federated Covid-19 Lesion Segmentation
Authors : Camila González, Christian L. Harder, Amin Ranem, Ricarda Fischbach, Isabel J. Kaltenborn, Armin Dadras, Andreas M. Bucher, Anirban Mukhopadhyay
Published in: Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin 2022
Publisher: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
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Federated Learning is the most promising way to train robust Deep Learning models for the segmentation of Covid-19-related findings in chest CTs. By learning in a decentralized fashion, heterogeneous data can be leveraged from a variety of sources and acquisition protocols whilst ensuring patient privacy. It is, however, crucial to continuously monitor the performance of the model. Yet when it comes to the segmentation of diffuse lung lesions, a quick visual inspection is not enough to assess the quality, and thorough monitoring of all network outputs by expert radiologists is not feasible. In this work, we present an array of lightweight metrics that can be calculated locally in each hospital and then aggregated for central monitoring of a federated system. Our linear model detects over 70% of low-quality segmentations on an out-of-distribution dataset and thus reliably signals a decline in model performance.