用合成异常噪声和多阶段扩散,无监督检测医学影像病灶。
Synomaly Noise and Multi-Stage Diffusion: A Novel Approach for Unsupervised Anomaly Detection in Medical Images
- 通过合成异常噪声让模型学会移除病灶
- 多阶段去噪保留细节,重建高质量健康图像
- 仅需正常图像训练,适合标注稀缺场景
医学影像异常检测对识别脑部MRI、肝脏CT及颈动脉超声中的病灶至关重要。但因专家标注稀缺且解剖结构复杂,全监督分割模型训练困难。本文提出一种基于扩散模型的无监督异常检测框架,引入合成异常(Synomaly)噪声,在训练中向健康图像注入合成病灶,使模型学会异常去除;同时采用多阶段扩散过程逐步去噪,既保留精细结构,又提升无病灶重建质量。生成的高保真反事实健康图像增强了模型可解释性,为病灶程度评估与临床决策提供可靠基准。该方法仅在健康图像上训练,无需异常样本或像素级标注。在脑部MRI、肝脏CT和颈动脉超声数据集上验证,性能超越现有先进无监督方法,在超声数据集上接近全监督分割模型表现。消融实验证实合成异常噪声与多阶段扩散对分割效果有显著贡献。结果表明,该方法是高效、低标注依赖的医学异常检测新范式。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Anomaly detection in medical imaging plays a crucial role in identifying pathological regions across various imaging modalities, such as brain MRI, liver CT, and carotid ultrasound (US). However, training fully supervised segmentation models is often hindered by the scarcity of expert annotations and the complexity of diverse anatomical structures. To address these issues, we propose a novel unsupervised anomaly detection framework based on a diffusion model that incorporates a synthetic anomaly (Synomaly) noise function and a multi-stage diffusion process. Synomaly noise introduces synthetic anomalies into healthy images during training, allowing the model to effectively learn anomaly removal. The multi-stage diffusion process is introduced to progressively denoise images, preserving fine details while improving the quality of anomaly-free reconstructions. The generated high-fidelity counterfactual healthy images can further enhance the interpretability of the segmentation models, as well as provide a reliable baseline for evaluating the extent of anomalies and supporting clinical decision-making. Notably, the unsupervised anomaly detection model is trained purely on healthy images, eliminating the need for anomalous training samples and pixel-level annotations. We validate the proposed approach on brain MRI, liver CT datasets, and carotid US. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed framework outperforms existing state-of-the-art unsupervised anomaly detection methods, achieving performance comparable to fully supervised segmentation models in the US dataset. Ablation studies further highlight the contributions of Synomaly noise and the multi-stage diffusion process in improving anomaly segmentation. These findings underscore the potential of our approach as a robust and annotation-efficient alternative for medical anomaly detection.
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