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Poster
Quantifying Statistical Significance of Neural Network-based Image Segmentation by Selective Inference
Vo Nguyen Le Duy · Shogo Iwazaki · Ichiro Takeuchi

Tue Nov 29 09:00 AM -- 11:00 AM (PST) @ Hall J #531
in Poster Session 1 »

Although a vast body of literature relates to image segmentation methods that use deep neural networks (DNNs), less attention has been paid to assessing the statistical reliability of segmentation results. In this study, we interpret the segmentation results as hypotheses driven by DNN (called DNN-driven hypotheses) and propose a method to quantify the reliability of these hypotheses within a statistical hypothesis testing framework. To this end, we introduce a conditional selective inference (SI) framework---a new statistical inference framework for data-driven hypotheses that has recently received considerable attention---to compute exact (non-asymptotic) valid p-values for the segmentation results. To use the conditional SI framework for DNN-based segmentation, we develop a new SI algorithm based on the homotopy method, which enables us to derive the exact (non-asymptotic) sampling distribution of DNN-driven hypothesis. We conduct several experiments to demonstrate the performance of the proposed method.

Keywords: Image Segmentation · uncertainty quantification · p-value · Statistical Hypothesis Testing · Selective Inference

Author Information

Vo Nguyen Le Duy (Nagoya Institute of Technology / RIKEN)
Shogo Iwazaki (Nagoya Institute of Technology)
Ichiro Takeuchi (Nagoya Institute of Technology)

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