提出无结构依赖的血管分割框架,提升小血管与连通性表现。
Optimized Vessel Segmentation: A Structure-Agnostic Approach with Small Vessel Enhancement and Morphological Correction
- 采用无结构依赖设计,融合小血管增强与形态修正模块。
- 在17个数据集上实现34.6%连通性提升,精度优于17个专家模型。
- 适用于多模态血管分割,尤其适合临床通用场景。
准确分割血流血管对多种临床评估和术后分析至关重要。然而,血管影像固有的挑战——如稀疏性、细粒度、低对比度、数据分布差异以及拓扑结构保持需求——使通用血管分割尤为复杂。尽管已针对特定解剖区域开发了专用分割方法,但其高度依赖定制化模型,限制了泛化能力。通用医学影像分割模型常忽略关键血管特性,如结果连通性。为此,我们提出一种优化的血管分割框架:一种结构无关方法,结合小血管增强与形态校正,适用于多模态血管分割。为训练与验证该框架,我们整合了涵盖17个数据集的综合性多模态数据集,并与六种基于SAM的方法及17个专家模型进行对比。结果表明,本方法在分割精度、泛化能力及连通性方面均表现卓越,连通性提升达34.6%,凸显其临床潜力。消融实验进一步验证了各改进模块的有效性。代码与数据集将在论文发表后开源至GitHub。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Accurate segmentation of blood vessels is essential for various clinical assessments and postoperative analyses. However, the inherent challenges of vascular imaging, such as sparsity, fine granularity, low contrast, data distribution variability, and the critical need for preserving topological structure, making generalized vessel segmentation particularly complex. While specialized segmentation methods have been developed for specific anatomical regions, their over-reliance on tailored models hinders broader applicability and generalization. General-purpose segmentation models introduced in medical imaging often fail to address critical vascular characteristics, including the connectivity of segmentation results. To overcome these limitations, we propose an optimized vessel segmentation framework: a structure-agnostic approach incorporating small vessel enhancement and morphological correction for multi-modality vessel segmentation. To train and validate this framework, we compiled a comprehensive multi-modality dataset spanning 17 datasets and benchmarked our model against six SAM-based methods and 17 expert models. The results demonstrate that our approach achieves superior segmentation accuracy, generalization, and a 34.6% improvement in connectivity, underscoring its clinical potential. An ablation study further validates the effectiveness of the proposed improvements. We will release the code and dataset at github following the publication of this work.
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