{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/an-attempt-at-beating-the-3d-u-net","title":"An attempt at beating the 3D U-Net","arxiv_id":"1908.02182","date":"2019-08-06","proceeding":null,"authors":["Fabian Isensee","Klaus H. Maier-Hein"],"abstract":"The U-Net is arguably the most successful segmentation architecture in the medical domain. Here we apply a 3D U-Net to the 2019 Kidney and Kidney Tumor Segmentation Challenge and attempt to improve upon it by augmenting it with residual and pre-activation residual blocks. Cross-validation results on the training cases suggest only very minor, barely measurable improvements. Due to marginally higher dice scores, the residual 3D U-Net is chosen for test set prediction. With a Composite Dice score of 91.23 on the test set, our method outperformed all 105 competing teams and won the KiTS2019 challenge by a small margin.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.02182v2","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/1908.02182v2.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"an-attempt-at-beating-the-3d-u-net","repo_url":"https://github.com/MIC-DKFZ/nnunet","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"pytorch","reach":{"status":"ok","spdx":"Apache-2.0"}}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"segmentation","task_name":"Segmentation"},{"task_slug":"tumor-segmentation","task_name":"Tumor Segmentation"}],"methods":[{"method_slug":"concatenated-skip-connection","method_name":"Concatenated Skip Connection"},{"method_slug":"convolution","method_name":"Convolution"},{"method_slug":"max-pooling","method_name":"Max Pooling"},{"method_slug":"relu","method_name":"ReLU"},{"method_slug":"u-net","method_name":"U-Net"}],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=1908.02182","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}