arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 25

BiCC: Bidirectional Connected-Component Loss for Instance-Aware Segmentation

The paper introduces BiCC, a bidirectional connected-component loss that pairs annotation- and prediction-derived partitions to score predicted components on their own scale. By deriving instances from predictions, BiCC directly penalizes false-positive components regardless of size, allowing a balance parameter to control the lesion-wise precision–recall trade-off. Across five datasets, BiCC outperforms existing instance-aware losses such as CC-DiceCE and blob loss in lesion-wise F1, and improves over DiceCE on multiple datasets.

By Luc Bouteille, Frederic Jonske, Jens Kleesiek, Alexander Jaus