arXiv:2410.10097eess.IVcs.AI2024-10被引 5

用低分辨率MRI训练,实现高分辨率脑部图像精准分割。

REHRSeg: Unleashing the Power of Self-Supervised Super-Resolution for Resource-Efficient 3D MRI Segmentation

  • 通过自监督超分辨率生成伪标签,缓解医疗数据少问题。
  • 在边界区域引入不确定性感知,提升分割精度。
  • 适合临床场景中设备资源有限的医学图像分析任务。

高分辨率(HR)3D磁共振成像(MRI)可提供详细解剖结构信息,有助于精确分割感兴趣区域,但其采集成本高且标注困难。本文提出资源高效的高分辨率分割框架REHRSeg,仅需低分辨率(LR)图像输入即可实现高质量HR分割。该方法利用自监督超分辨率(self-SR)生成伪监督信号,使2D扫描获取的易得标注LR图像可直接用于训练。主要贡献包括:(1)通过伪数据缓解医疗数据稀缺问题;(2)设计不确定性感知的超分辨率头(UASR),增强对ROI边界不确定性的识别能力;(3)通过结构知识蒸馏对齐自超分辨率与分割的空间特征,更好捕捉区域相关性。实验表明,REHRSeg在无需密集标注的情况下实现高质量HR分割,同时显著提升基础LR分割性能。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

High-resolution (HR) 3D magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can provide detailed anatomical structural information, enabling precise segmentation of regions of interest for various medical image analysis tasks. Due to the high demands of acquisition device, collection of HR images with their annotations is always impractical in clinical scenarios. Consequently, segmentation results based on low-resolution (LR) images with large slice thickness are often unsatisfactory for subsequent tasks. In this paper, we propose a novel Resource-Efficient High-Resolution Segmentation framework (REHRSeg) to address the above-mentioned challenges in real-world applications, which can achieve HR segmentation while only employing the LR images as input. REHRSeg is designed to leverage self-supervised super-resolution (self-SR) to provide pseudo supervision, therefore the relatively easier-to-acquire LR annotated images generated by 2D scanning protocols can be directly used for model training. The main contribution to ensure the effectiveness in self-SR for enhancing segmentation is three-fold: (1) We mitigate the data scarcity problem in the medical field by using pseudo-data for training the segmentation model. (2) We design an uncertainty-aware super-resolution (UASR) head in self-SR to raise the awareness of segmentation uncertainty as commonly appeared on the ROI boundaries. (3) We align the spatial features for self-SR and segmentation through structural knowledge distillation to enable a better capture of region correlations. Experimental results demonstrate that REHRSeg achieves high-quality HR segmentation without intensive supervision, while also significantly improving the baseline performance for LR segmentation.

MRI分割超分辨率自监督学习

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