Validation of the practicability of logical assessment formula for evaluations with inaccurate ground-truth labels: An application study on tumour segmentation for breast cancer

Yongquan  Yang; Hong  Bu

doi:10.59400/cai.v2i2.1443

Validation of the practicability of logical assessment formula for evaluations with inaccurate ground-truth labels: An application study on tumour segmentation for breast cancer

Yongquan Yang Institute of Clinical Pathology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610000, China; Zhongjiu Flash Medical Technology Co., Ltd., Mianyang 621000, China
Hong Bu Institute of Clinical Pathology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610000, China; Department of Pathology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610000, China

Article ID: 1443

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.59400/cai.v2i2.1443

Keywords: logical assessment formula; evaluations with inaccurate ground-truth labels; tumour segmentation; breast cancer

Abstract

The logical assessment formula (LAF) is a new theory proposed for evaluations with inaccurate ground-truth labels (IAGTLs) to assess the predictive models for artificial intelligence applications. However, the practicability of LAF for evaluations with IAGTLs has not yet been validated in real-world practice. In this paper, we applied LAF to two tasks of tumour segmentation for breast cancer (TSfBC) in medical histopathology whole slide image analysis (MHWSIA) for evaluations with IAGTLs. Experimental results and analysis show that the LAF-based evaluations with IAGTLs were unable to confidently act like usual evaluations with accurate ground-truth labels on the one easier task of TSfBC while being able to reasonably act like usual evaluations with AGTLs on the other more difficult task of TSfBC. These results and analysis reflect the potential of LAF applied to MHWSIA for evaluations with IAGTLs. This paper presents the first practical validation of LAF for evaluations with IAGTLs in a real-world application.

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2024-08-19

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Yang, Y., & Bu, H. (2024). Validation of the practicability of logical assessment formula for evaluations with inaccurate ground-truth labels: An application study on tumour segmentation for breast cancer. Computing and Artificial Intelligence, 2(2), 1443. https://doi.org/10.59400/cai.v2i2.1443

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