针对脑血管环的影像分析,提出统一框架实现精准分割与拓扑感知识别。
Topology-Aware Exploration of Circle of Willis for CTA and MRA: Segmentation, Detection, and Classification
- 构建统一数据集并设计拓扑感知损失,强化血管连通性建模
- 在125对CTA-MRA数据上多任务测试,多项指标达前列
- 适合医学影像分析、神经血管疾病辅助诊断研究者
脑血管环(CoW)是连接大脑主要血流的关键结构,其血管拓扑关系对评估神经血管疾病的风险和严重程度具有重要意义。目前存在两种代表性成像方式:计算机断层扫描血管造影(CTA)和磁共振血管造影(MRA)。TopCow24 提供了125对配准的 CTA-MRA 数据集用于 CoW 分析。为在统一框架中联合处理两种模态图像并学习其内在拓扑结构,我们通过独立强度预处理、联合重采样与归一化构建通用数据集。随后引入拓扑感知损失,提升 CoW 拓扑完整性及类别区分能力,并进一步实施拓扑感知精修以增强同类别内部连通性。方法在三个任务(分割、边界框检测、边缘检测)和两种模态上均取得竞争力结果。在 TopCow24 挑战赛最终评测中,于 CTA-Seg-Task 获第二名,CTA-Box-Task 第三名,CTA-Edg-Task 第一名;MRA-Seg-Task 第二名,MRA-Box-Task 第三名,MRA-Edg-Task 第二名。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
The Circle of Willis (CoW) vessels is critical to connecting major circulations of the brain. The topology of the vascular structure is clinical significance to evaluate the risk, severity of the neuro-vascular diseases. The CoW has two representative angiographic imaging modalities, computed tomography angiography (CTA) and magnetic resonance angiography (MRA). TopCow24 provided 125 paired CTA-MRA dataset for the analysis of CoW. To explore both CTA and MRA images in a unified framework to learn the inherent topology of Cow, we construct the universal dataset via independent intensity preprocess, followed by joint resampling and normarlization. Then, we utilize the topology-aware loss to enhance the topology completeness of the CoW and the discrimination between different classes. A complementary topology-aware refinement is further conducted to enhance the connectivity within the same class. Our method was evaluated on all the three tasks and two modalities, achieving competitive results. In the final test phase of TopCow24 Challenge, we achieved the second place in the CTA-Seg-Task, the third palce in the CTA-Box-Task, the first place in the CTA-Edg-Task, the second place in the MRA-Seg-Task, the third palce in the MRA-Box-Task, the second place in the MRA-Edg-Task.
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