TwinTrack: Post-hoc Multi-Rater Calibration for Medical Image Segmentation

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TwinTrack is a post-hoc calibration framework for pancreatic cancer segmentation that aligns ensemble model probabilities with the empirical mean human response across multiple annotators, improving interpretability and calibration metrics on multi-rater benchmarks.

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) segmentation on contrast-enhanced CT is inherently ambiguous: inter-rater disagreement among experts reflects genuine uncertainty rather than annotation noise. Standard deep learning approaches assume a single ground truth, producing probabilistic outputs that can be poorly calibrated and difficult to interpret under such ambiguity. We present TwinTrack, a framework that addresses this gap through post-hoc calibration of ensemble segmentation probabilities to the empirical mean human response (MHR) -the fraction of expert annotators labeling a voxel as tumor. Calibrated probabilities are thus directly interpretable as the expected proportion of annotators assigning the tumor label, explicitly modeling inter-rater disagreement. The proposed post-hoc calibration procedure is simple and requires only a small multi-rater calibration set. It consistently improves calibration metrics over standard approaches when evaluated on the MICCAI 2025 CURVAS-PDACVI multi-rater benchmark.
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TwinTrack framework addresses pancreatic cancer segmentation ambiguity through post-hoc calibration of ensemble probabilities to empirical mean human response, improving calibration metrics on multi-rater benchmarks.

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) segmentation on contrast-enhanced CT is inherently ambiguous:inter-rater disagreementamong experts reflects genuine uncertainty rather than annotation noise. Standard deep learning approaches assume a single ground truth, producingprobabilistic outputsthat can be poorly calibrated and difficult to interpret under such ambiguity. We present TwinTrack, a framework that addresses this gap throughpost-hoc calibrationofensemble segmentationprobabilities to theempirical mean human response(MHR) -the fraction of expert annotators labeling a voxel as tumor. Calibrated probabilities are thus directly interpretable as the expected proportion of annotators assigning the tumor label, explicitly modelinginter-rater disagreement. The proposedpost-hoc calibrationprocedure is simple and requires only a small multi-rater calibration set. It consistently improvescalibration metricsover standard approaches when evaluated on the MICCAI 2025 CURVAS-PDACVI multi-rater benchmark.

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