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ArticlemedRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences2026

A Real-World Evaluation of Failure Detection for Liver CT Segmentation.

Jeddy Bennett, McKell Woodland, Austin Castelo, Mais Altaie, Ajith Anthony, Noreen S Siddiqi, James P Long, Kristy K Brock

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Jeddy BennettDepartment of Imaging Physics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston TX 77030, USA.ORCID 0009-0003-2546-1524
McKell WoodlandDepartment of Imaging Physics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston TX 77030, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0995-3695
Austin CasteloDepartment of Imaging Physics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston TX 77030, USA.ORCID 0009-0009-3015-3570
Mais AltaieDepartment of Imaging Physics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston TX 77030, USA.ORCID 0009-0000-9298-6644
Ajith AnthonyDepartment of Interventional Radiology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston TX 77030, USA.ORCID 0009-0008-2265-8758
Noreen S SiddiqiDepartment of Interventional Radiology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston TX 77030, USA.ORCID 0009-0002-9738-6431
James P LongDepartment of Biostatistics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston TX 77030, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5853-5938
Kristy K BrockDepartment of Imaging Physics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston TX 77030, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9364-5040

Funding

Tumor Evolution and Metastasis ProgramP30CA016672 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR · PI DIANE BODURKA · 1985 to 2026
$290.8M
Project 3: Enhanced Sensitivity of Tumors to Proton Beam Therapy: Mechanisms and Biomarkers.P01CA261669 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI TITT, UWE · 2021 to 2025
$14.0M
Optimization and Evaluation of Anatomical Models of Liver Radiation ResponseR01CA221971 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR · PI BROCK, KRISTY · 2018 to 2022
$1.8M
Anatomical Modeling to Improve the Precision of Image Guided Liver AblationR01CA235564 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR · PI BROCK, KRISTY, ODISIO, BRUNO C · 2019 to 2023
$1.7M
Image Guided Cancer Therapy Training ProgramT32CA261856 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR · PI Kristy Brock, Clifton David Fuller · 2022 to 2026
$1.2M
NCI NIH HHS P01 CA261669NCI NIH HHS P30 CA016672NCI NIH HHS R01 CA221971NCI NIH HHS R01 CA235564NCI NIH HHS T32 CA261856
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Abstract

Deep learning models deployed in clinical imaging frequently encounter distribution shifts, yet most out-of-distribution (OOD) detection methods are evaluated only on controlled research datasets. As a result, it is unclear whether existing approaches can reliably identify segmentation failures that arise in real-world clinical practice. We evaluated six OOD detection methods on a deployed liver CT segmentation model (3D nnU-Net) using internal data from 400 patients and external data from 100 patients collected across nearly 70 sites in 7 countries. One method was Pairwise Surface DSC, a surface-based extension of Pairwise DSC, that we introduced. OOD performance was measured using sensitivity, AUROC, and balanced accuracy, with thresholds determined on an independent cohort of 400 patients using the Youden J statistic. Statistical significance was assessed using McNemar tests and stratified bootstraps (

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Failure DetectionLiver SegmentationOut-of-Distribution Detection

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