arxivcs.LGcs.CVphysics.med-ph2026-07-06
When Does Consensus Beat Voting? A Critical Analysis of Statistical Label Fusion in Medical Image Segmentation
This paper provides a rigorous, self-contained investigation of consensus segmentation. We derive the mathematical foundations from first principles -- the generative model, EM algorithm, Van Leemput's marginalization analysis, identifiability conditions, Spatial STAPLE, and deep…