
YOLOv8 Segmentation on Custom Dataset (Medical Image Segmentation)
Last Updated on November 17, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Sumit Pandey
Originally published on Towards AI.
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YOLOv8 is an amazing segmentation model; its easy to train, test and deploy. In this tutorial, we will learn how to use YOLOv8 on the custom dataset. But before that, I would like to tell you why should you use YOLOv8 when there are other excellent segmentation models? Let’s start with my story.
I was working on a project related to medical image segmentation when my collaborator dropped a bombshell by saying that we had only 600 images and masks from 175 patients. In medical imaging, it’s a common problem because clinicians/doctors are the busiest people, and… Read the full blog for free on Medium.
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