arXiv · 2609.14943
ThreshGuide: Class-Aware Labeled-Guided Thresholding for Semi-Supervised 3D Abdominal Multi-Organ Segmentation
Abstract
Pseudo-labeling is a strong paradigm for semi-supervised medical image segmentation, yet its effectiveness is highly sensitive to confidence thresholding. In abdominal multi-organ segmentation, a fixed global threshold is particularly suboptimal because organ classes differ substantially in size, appearance, and learning difficulty. In this work, we propose ThreshGuide, a class-aware threshold adaptation framework that uses labeled data to guide pseudo-label selection on unlabeled data. Built upon a standard teacher-student architecture, the teacher model evaluates labeled samples during training to estimate class-aware threshold targets by maximizing an error-aware F\b{eta} criterion that balances precision and coverage. These targets are then smoothed with an exponential moving average (EMA) and used to filter unlabeled voxels in a class-dependent manner. Experiments on FLARE2022 and AMOS2022 show that ThreshGuide performs competitively overall, yielding clear improvements specifically on hard-to-learn organs.
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Hongyu Liu, Yinlong Wang, Lusha Li, Hui Meng. 2026-09-14. ThreshGuide: Class-Aware Labeled-Guided Thresholding for Semi-Supervised 3D Abdominal Multi-Organ Segmentation. https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.14943
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