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Description

Adds an introductory tutorial for the average calibration losses proposed in Project-MONAI/MONAI#9092.

The notebook explains predictive calibration, why it matters for medical image segmentation, and how to interpret reliability diagrams. It then compares a segmentation-only baseline with one validation-selected Hard L1-ACE configuration on complete 3D volumes from Medical Segmentation Decathlon Task04 Hippocampus.

The example intentionally keeps the experiment simple: two training runs with identical initialization, data order, augmentations, and optimization settings. The calibrated objective uses a 1:1:0.30 Dice:CE:Hard-L1-ACE ratio. The held-out test set is not accessed until both validation-selected checkpoints have been fixed.

Saved tutorial result

Configuration Dice ACE MCE
Segmentation only 0.799317 0.117391 0.295517
Hard L1-ACE 0.828645 0.090355 0.208534

This corresponds to a 23% reduction in held-out ACE and a 29% reduction in MCE, while Dice increases by 0.0293 for this split and seed. The notebook explicitly presents this as a demonstration rather than a benchmark guarantee.

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  • Executed all 36 cells end to end on an NVIDIA RTX 5090
  • Passed the repository runner with a one-epoch execution
  • Passed targeted notebook schema, syntax, formatting, PEP8, metadata, and output checks
  • Confirmed that saved outputs contain no execution errors or private local paths

Dependency

Depends on Project-MONAI/MONAI#9092 for HardL1ACELoss and SoftL1ACELoss.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Documentation
    • Added a Calibration section to the documentation, linking to a new tutorial for training calibrated segmentation models on the MSD Task04 Hippocampus MRI dataset.
    • Documented calibration metrics, bin statistics, calibration losses, and baseline comparisons.
    • Added setup and execution guidance, including automatic dataset download, environment configuration, CI smoke testing, and GPU recommendations.

Signed-off-by: Theo Barfoot <theo.barfoot@gmail.com>
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The changes document a 3D segmentation calibration tutorial and add it to the main notebook index. The documentation covers dataset setup, calibration methods, training comparisons, required MONAI losses, and the CI smoke test.

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Calibration tutorial documentation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Tutorial documentation and README entry
calibration/README.md, README.md
The new documentation describes the Task04_Hippocampus dataset, calibration metrics, training configurations, MONAI loss requirements, GPU guidance, and the runner.sh CI smoke test. The main README links to the calibration notebook.

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~3 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 2f206

The new tutorial is usable, but its README should state the actual 1:1:0.30 training-loss ratio so readers can accurately reproduce and interpret the reported calibration results.

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In `@calibration/README.md`:
- Line 12: Update the calibration tutorial documentation near the publication’s
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validation-selected 1:1:0.30 Dice:CE:Hard-L1-ACE objective, while retaining the
existing discussion of finite-bin estimates and auxiliary calibration training
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Comment thread calibration/README.md
soft-binned L1 Average Calibration Error losses. It uses complete-volume train/validation/test cohorts and compares
a segmentation baseline with one hard L1-ACE configuration chosen in validation-only preliminary experiments for
its calibration improvement with minimal Dice reduction. The focused comparison discusses the associated
publication's 1:1:1 objective, finite-bin estimates, and the limitations of auxiliary calibration training.

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Document the tutorial's actual loss ratio.

The text names the publication's 1:1:1 objective but does not state that this tutorial uses the validation-selected 1:1:0.30 Dice:CE:Hard-L1-ACE objective. This can confuse reproduction of the reported results.

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-The focused comparison discusses the associated
-publication's 1:1:1 objective, finite-bin estimates, and the limitations of auxiliary calibration training.
+The focused comparison uses a validation-selected 1:1:0.30 Dice:CE:Hard-L1-ACE objective. It also discusses the
+associated publication's 1:1:1 objective, finite-bin estimates, and the limitations of auxiliary calibration training.
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In `@calibration/README.md` at line 12, Update the calibration tutorial
documentation near the publication’s 1:1:1 objective to explicitly state that
this tutorial uses the validation-selected 1:1:0.30 Dice:CE:Hard-L1-ACE
objective, while retaining the existing discussion of finite-bin estimates and
auxiliary calibration training limitations.

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