{"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/segmentation-loss-odyssey","title":"Segmentation Loss Odyssey","arxiv_id":"2005.13449","date":"2020-05-27","proceeding":null,"authors":["Jun Ma"],"abstract":"Loss functions are one of the crucial ingredients in deep learning-based medical image segmentation methods. Many loss functions have been proposed in existing literature, but are studied separately or only investigated with few other losses. In this paper, we present a systematic taxonomy to sort existing loss functions into four meaningful categories. This helps to reveal links and fundamental similarities between them. Moreover, we explore the relationship between the traditional region-based and the more recent boundary-based loss functions. The PyTorch implementations of these loss functions are publicly available at \\url{https://github.com/JunMa11/SegLoss}.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.13449v1","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.13449v1.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":"segmentation-loss-odyssey","repo_url":"https://github.com/JunMa11/SegLoss","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"pytorch","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"image-segmentation","task_name":"Image Segmentation"},{"task_slug":"medical-image-segmentation","task_name":"Medical Image Segmentation"},{"task_slug":"segmentation","task_name":"Segmentation"},{"task_slug":"semantic-segmentation","task_name":"Semantic Segmentation"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}