arXiv:2412.18738cs.CV2024-12

用草图标注实现高精度医学图像分割,性能接近全监督方法。

HELPNet: Hierarchical Perturbations Consistency and Entropy-guided Ensemble for Scribble Supervised Medical Image Segmentation

  • 分层扰动一致性增强多尺度结构特征学习
  • 基于熵的伪标签生成提升分割置信度,达85.6%平均Dice
  • 融合连通性与边界先验,适合标注资源有限的医疗场景

医学图像分割的全标注标签创建成本高昂,亟需减少对详细标注的依赖。草图标注虽降低标注成本,但信息量有限,难以准确捕捉器官边界与结构细节。为此,我们提出HELPNet,一种基于草图的弱监督分割框架,旨在平衡标注效率与分割精度。该框架包含三个模块:层次化扰动一致性(HPC)模块通过全局、局部和焦点视图的密度控制拼图扰动,增强多尺度结构特征学习;熵引导伪标签(EGPL)模块利用预测熵评估置信度,生成高质量伪标签;结构先验优化(SPR)模块引入连通性和边界先验,提升伪标签的精确性与可靠性。在ACDC、MSCMRseg和CHAOS三个公开数据集上的实验表明,HELPNet显著优于现有草图弱监督方法,性能接近全监督模型。代码已开源。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Creating fully annotated labels for medical image segmentation is prohibitively time-intensive and costly, emphasizing the necessity for innovative approaches that minimize reliance on detailed annotations. Scribble annotations offer a more cost-effective alternative, significantly reducing the expenses associated with full annotations. However, scribble annotations offer limited and imprecise information, failing to capture the detailed structural and boundary characteristics necessary for accurate organ delineation. To address these challenges, we propose HELPNet, a novel scribble-based weakly supervised segmentation framework, designed to bridge the gap between annotation efficiency and segmentation performance. HELPNet integrates three modules. The Hierarchical perturbations consistency (HPC) module enhances feature learning by employing density-controlled jigsaw perturbations across global, local, and focal views, enabling robust modeling of multi-scale structural representations. Building on this, the Entropy-guided pseudo-label (EGPL) module evaluates the confidence of segmentation predictions using entropy, generating high-quality pseudo-labels. Finally, the structural prior refinement (SPR) module incorporates connectivity and bounded priors to enhance the precision and reliability and pseudo-labels. Experimental results on three public datasets ACDC, MSCMRseg, and CHAOS show that HELPNet significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods for scribble-based weakly supervised segmentation and achieves performance comparable to fully supervised methods. The code is available at https://github.com/IPMI-NWU/HELPNet.

医学图像分割弱监督学习草图标注伪标签

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