Look Ma, no code: fine tuning nnU-Net for the AutoPET II challenge by only adjusting its JSON plans

Abstract

We participate in the AutoPET II challenge by modifying nnU-Net only through its easy to understand and modify 'nnUNetPlans.json' file. By switching to a UNet with residual encoder, increasing the batch size and increasing the patch size we obtain a configuration that substantially outperforms the automatically configured nnU-Net baseline (5-fold cross-validation Dice score of 65.14 vs 33.28) at the expense of increased compute requirements for model training. Our final submission ensembles the two most promising configurations.