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In settings where such labeled data may be scarce, there may be value in exploiting cheaper or more readily available data through clinical trials, such as Response Assessment in Neuro-Oncology (RANO).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>This study demonstrates the utility of such measurements for multi-modal brain tumor segmentation, whereby an encoder network is first trained to regress synthetic \u201cPseudo-RANO\u201d measurements using a mean squared error loss with cosine similarity penalty to promote orthogonality of the principal axes. Using oriented bounding-boxes to measure overlap with the ground truth, we show that the encoder model can reliably estimate tumor principal axes with good performance. The trained encoder was combined with a randomly initialized decoder for fine-tuning as a U-Net architecture for whole tumor (WT) segmentation.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Our results demonstrate that weakly supervised encoder models converge faster than those trained without pre-training and help minimize the annotation burden when trained to perform segmentation.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Discussion<\/jats:title><jats:p>The use of cheap, low-fidelity labels in the context allows for both faster and more stable training with fewer densely segmented ground truth masks, which has potential uses outside this particular paradigm.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/fcomp.2024.1386514","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,6,20]],"date-time":"2024-06-20T04:38:25Z","timestamp":1718858305000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Weakly supervised pre-training for brain tumor segmentation using principal axis measurements of tumor burden"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"6","author":[{"given":"Joshua E.","family":"Mckone","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Tryphon","family":"Lambrou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Xujiong","family":"Ye","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"James M.","family":"Brown","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,6,20]]},"reference":[{"key":"B1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"915","DOI":"10.1118\/1.3528204","article-title":"The lung image database consortium (LIDC) and image database resource initiative (IDRI): a completed reference database of lung nodules on CT scans","volume":"38","author":"Armato III","year":"2011","journal-title":"Med. 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