NoisyAdamW: A novel optimizer for EfficientNetB0-UNet (EffB0-UNet) in low-grade glioma segmentation
摘要
Optimization plays an important role in the convergence and generalization of deep learning-based medical image segmentation. Here, we present NoisyAdamW, a novel variant of AdamW that injects adaptive Gaussian noise into gradient updates. The noise amplitude is scaled by the gradient magnitude to preserve stability during late training while encouraging broader loss-surface exploration early on. NoisyAdamW is evaluated on the EffB0-UNet architecture, which uses EfficientNetB0 as the encoder and UNet as the decoder, a strong and efficient baseline for LGG segmentation. Experiments are conducted on the TCGA-LGG dataset and include comparisons with the Adam and AdamW optimizers, as well as a noise hyperparameter analysis. The optimal configuration uses a noise factor of