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Medical image segmentation models are typically supervised by expert annotations at the pixel-level, which can be expensive to acquire. In this work, we propose a method that combines the high quality of pixel-level expert annotations with…
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Annotation of medical images has been a major bottleneck for the development of accurate and robust machine learning models. Annotation is costly and time-consuming and typically requires expert knowledge, especially in the medical domain.…
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