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Most of the corresponding tensorflow code can be found here.
Including the following citation in your work would be highly appreciated.
@article{SegLossOdyssey,
title={Segmentation Loss Odyssey},
author={Ma Jun},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.13449},
year={2020}
}