The Dice loss in the context of missing or empty labels: Introducing $\Phi$ and $\epsilon$

, the Dice loss handles empty labels correctly. We believe that this work highlights some essential perspectives and hope that it encourages researchers to better describe their exact implementation of the Dice loss in future work.

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