Dual Co-Train: Cross-Dataset Ultrasound Tongue Segmentation Under Extreme Data Scarcity
초록
Ultrasound tongue contour segmentation remains challenging under cross-dataset domain shift, where limited annotations, probe variability, and acquisition noise often degrade model generalization. We present a source-free domain adaptation framework for robust ultrasound tongue segmentation built on a lightweight UltraUNet backbone. Starting from a checkpoint pretrained on only five labeled source images, simulating an underfitted constrained source model, the proposed method adapts to a fully-unlabeled target domain by iteratively refining pseudo-labels, filtering unreliable masks with a contour-based quality-control module, and generating target-style synthetic image-mask pairs through a segmentation-guided conditional GAN. The student model is then trained on a mixture of clean pseudo-labeled target images, noisy pseudo-labels with consistency regularization, and synthetic samples, enabling closed-loop adaptation without access to source data. We evaluate the method on 12 source-target transfer pairs across eight ultrasound tongue imaging datasets, and conduct source-size scaling experiments and ablation studies. Across all comparisons, the proposed framework improves segmentation overlap and contour accuracy over the baselines, including supervised ones. These results suggest that task-specific pseudo-label refinement and synthetic target-style augmentation can substantially improve source-free adaptation for ultrasound tongue imaging.
저자 (7명)
- Alisher Myrgyyassov — LinkedIn 검색
- Zhen Song — LinkedIn 검색
- Bruce Xiao Wang — LinkedIn 검색
- Yu Sun — LinkedIn 검색
- Min Ney Wong — LinkedIn 검색
- Yihao Zhou — LinkedIn 검색
- Yongping Zheng — LinkedIn 검색
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