# Team NeuroPoly: Description of the Pipelines for the MICCAI 2021 MS New Lesions Segmentation Challenge

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.05409 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2109.05409/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 13 of its 21 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 12 Sep 2021.

## Builds on (most cited first, 13 of 13)

- [U-Net: Convolutional Networks for Biomedical Image Segmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1505.04597/) (2015)
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- [TransUNet: Transformers Make Strong Encoders for Medical Image Segmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2102.04306/) (2021)
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- [Attention U-Net: Learning Where to Look for the Pancreas](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1804.03999/) (2018)
- [A Probabilistic U-Net for Segmentation of Ambiguous Images](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1806.05034/) (2018)
- [TorchIO: A Python library for efficient loading, preprocessing, augmentation and patch-based sampling of medical images in deep learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2003.04696/) (2020)
- [Exploring Uncertainty Measures in Deep Networks for Multiple Sclerosis Lesion Detection and Segmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1808.01200/) (2018)
- [SoftSeg: Advantages of soft versus binary training for image segmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2011.09041/) (2020)
- [Automatic segmentation of the spinal cord and intramedullary multiple sclerosis lesions with convolutional neural networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1805.06349/) (2018)
- [ivadomed: A Medical Imaging Deep Learning Toolbox](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2010.09984/) (2020)

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [CoactSeg: Learning from Heterogeneous Data for New Multiple Sclerosis Lesion Segmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2307.04513/) (2023)

## Abstract (arXiv)

This paper gives a detailed description of the pipelines used for the 2nd edition of the MICCAI 2021 Challenge on Multiple Sclerosis Lesion Segmentation. An overview of the data preprocessing steps applied is provided along with a brief description of the pipelines used, in terms of the architecture and the hyperparameters. Our code for this work can be found at: https://github.com/ivadomed/ms-challenge-2021.