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Pick the Best Pre-trained Model: Towards Transferability Estimation for Medical Image Segmentation

22 Jul 2023arXiv:2307.11958archive 2025-07-28

Yuncheng Yang, Meng Wei, Junjun He, Jie Yang, Jin Ye, Yun Gu

Transfer learning is a critical technique in training deep neural networks for the challenging medical image segmentation task that requires enormous resources. With the abundance of medical image data, many research institutions release models trained on various datasets that can form a huge pool of candidate source models to choose from. Hence, it's vital to estimate the source models' transferability (i.e., the ability to generalize across different downstream tasks) for proper and efficient model reuse. To make up for its deficiency when applying transfer learning to medical image segmentation, in this paper, we therefore propose a new Transferability Estimation (TE) method. We first analyze the drawbacks of using the existing TE algorithms for medical image segmentation and then design a source-free TE framework that considers both class consistency and feature variety for better estimation. Extensive experiments show that our method surpasses all current algorithms for transferability estimation in medical image segmentation. Code is available at https://github.com/EndoluminalSurgicalVision-IMR/CCFV

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