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A Systematic Benchmark of Intensity Normalisation Methods for 3D Knee MRI Segmentation and Cross-Domain Generalisability

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TL;DR - This study benchmarks seven intensity-normalisation methods for 3D knee MRI meniscus segmentation. Normalisation modestly improves cross-domain robustness, but dataset shift remains the much larger deployment challenge.

  • A 3D U-Net was trained on IWOAI 2019 and evaluated internally and externally on SKM-TEA.
  • Normalisation methods performed similarly on internal data but differed significantly on external data.
  • Z-score normalisation, Nyúl histogram matching, and CLAHE showed greater cross-domain robustness.
  • All methods experienced a substantial performance drop between datasets, indicating that normalisation alone cannot overcome domain shift.

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A Systematic Benchmark of Intensity Normalisation Methods for 3D Knee MRI Segmentation and Cross-Domain Generalisability

arXiv cs.CV Oliver Mills, Philip Conaghan, Samuel Relton 2026-07-22 arXiv:2607.20028
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TL;DR - This study benchmarks seven intensity-normalisation methods for 3D knee MRI meniscus segmentation. Normalisation modestly improves cross-domain robustness, but dataset shift remains the much larger deployment challenge.

  • A 3D U-Net was trained on IWOAI 2019 and evaluated internally and externally on SKM-TEA.
  • Normalisation methods performed similarly on internal data but differed significantly on external data.
  • Z-score normalisation, Nyúl histogram matching, and CLAHE showed greater cross-domain robustness.
  • All methods experienced a substantial performance drop between datasets, indicating that normalisation alone cannot overcome domain shift.
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