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The increasing energy consumption and carbon footprint of deep learning (DL) due to growing compute requirements has become a cause of concern. In this work, we focus on the carbon footprint of developing DL models for medical image analysis (MIA), where volumetric images of high spatial resolution are handled. We present and compare the features of four tools from literature to quantify the carbon footprint of DL. Using one of these tools we estimate the carbon footprint of medical image segmentation pipelines. We choose nnU-net as the proxy for a medical image segmentation pipeline and experiment on three common datasets. With our work we hope to inform on the increasing energy costs incurred by MIA. We discuss simple strategies to cut-down the environmental impact that can make model selection and training processes more efficient.
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When the trackers cannot fetch real-time carbon intensity of energy for the specific geographic location, most resort to using some average estimate from a look-up table.
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Selvan, R., Bhagwat, N., Wolff Anthony, L.F., Kanding, B., Dam, E.B. (2022). Carbon Footprint of Selecting and Training Deep Learning Models for Medical Image Analysis. In: Wang, L., Dou, Q., Fletcher, P.T., Speidel, S., Li, S. (eds) Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2022. MICCAI 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13435. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16443-9_49
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