arXiv AI By Dang P. M. Cao, Hieu D. Pham, Hieu Pham

When Oracle Conditioning Misleads Deployment: Conditioning-Availability Bias in Echocardiographic Segmentation

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arXiv:2608. 03342v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Conditional segmentation models may be trained and evaluated with auxiliary signals cleaner than those available at deployment.

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arXiv AI
Jul 7

Comparison of Loss Functions for Robust Deep Learning-based Echocardiography Segmentation when Learning with Partially Labelled Data from Multiple Domains

arXiv:2607. 05008v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Echocardiography is the first imaging modality used for assessing cardiac function, and accurate segmentation of cardiac structures is essential for deriving biomarkers.

By Iman Islam, Esther Puyol-Ant\'on, Bram Ruijsink, Andrew J. Reader, Andrew P. King
arXiv Computer Vision
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The segmentation ceiling: why explicit left-ventricular masks do not improve learned ejection-fraction regression

The paper introduces the "segmentation ceiling," a quantitative criterion that determines when explicit left‑ventricular (LV) segmentation can improve ejection fraction (EF) regression. By deriving how per‑frame segmentation area error propagates into EF error, the authors find that a break‑even error of about 10% per frame is required, whereas typical segmenters exceed this threshold (~14%). Consequently, several strategies that incorporate segmentation or area information fail to outperform a raw‑video baseline, while techniques such as weight averaging with strong augmentation and a heteroscedastic beta‑NLL loss yield competitive EF predictions and well‑calibrated uncertainty estimates.

By Farshid Farhadi Khouzani, Paul La Plante, Bryar Mustafa Shareef, Laxmi Gewali