Semi-supervised meibomian gland segmentation via mutual consistency constraints and uncertainty rectification

To solve the label scarcity of meibomian gland segmentation in infrared meibography images, a novel framework for semi-supervised meibomian gland segmentation is firstly presented in this paper. Extra mutual feature consistency constraint is added along with the cross pseudo supervision , guiding the model more robustness and discriminative. Meanwhile, cross uncertainty rectification is introduced to avoid noisy labels, further improving the pseudo supervision. Experimental results on an internal dataset reveals that our method yields significant performances using only 10% of the labeled data compared to the fully supervised segmentation, and outperforms the state-of-the art semi-supervised segmentation methods. Combination of mutual consistency regularization and cross uncertainty rectifi-cation guides model to distinguish glands from background well with limited labeled data.