Copy-Paste Image Augmentation with Poisson Image Editing for Ultrasound Instance Segmentation Learning

Deep learning has shown great success in high-level image analysis problems; yet its efficacy relies on the quality and diversity of the training data. In this work, we introduce a copy-paste image augmentation for ultrasound images. The Poisson image editing technique is used to generate realistic and seamless boundary transitions around the pasted image. Results showed that the proposed image augmentation technique improves training performance in terms of higher objective metrics and more stable training results.