首个乳腺超声生成模型,可高效生成真实医学图像用于癌症筛查。
A Foundational Generative Model for Breast Ultrasound Image Analysis
- 基于350万张超声图预训练,生成高质量乳腺影像数据。
- 早期诊断敏感度提升16.5%,超越9位资深放射科医生。
- 生成数据等效于真实数据,且保障患者隐私安全。
基础模型在临床任务中展现出强大潜力,但在乳腺超声分析领域仍处于空白。本文提出BUSGen,首个专为乳腺超声图像分析设计的基础生成模型。该模型在超过350万张乳腺超声图像上进行预训练,掌握了丰富的乳腺结构、病理特征及临床变异知识。通过少样本微调,BUSGen可生成大量真实且任务相关的数据,支持多种下游任务建模。大量实验表明,其适应能力显著优于基于真实数据训练的基础模型,在乳腺癌筛查、诊断与预后任务中表现优异。在早期诊断中,本方法平均敏感度提升16.5%(P<0.0001),超越9位持证放射科医生。此外,我们验证了生成数据的规模效应,其效果等同于真实世界数据用于诊断模型训练。实验还证明,该方法显著提升了下游模型的泛化能力。更重要的是,BUSGen实现完全去标识化数据共享,推动医疗数据安全利用。在线演示地址:https://aibus.bio
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Foundational models have emerged as powerful tools for addressing various tasks in clinical settings. However, their potential development to breast ultrasound analysis remains untapped. In this paper, we present BUSGen, the first foundational generative model specifically designed for breast ultrasound image analysis. Pretrained on over 3.5 million breast ultrasound images, BUSGen has acquired extensive knowledge of breast structures, pathological features, and clinical variations. With few-shot adaptation, BUSGen can generate repositories of realistic and informative task-specific data, facilitating the development of models for a wide range of downstream tasks. Extensive experiments highlight BUSGen's exceptional adaptability, significantly exceeding real-data-trained foundational models in breast cancer screening, diagnosis, and prognosis. In breast cancer early diagnosis, our approach outperformed all board-certified radiologists (n=9), achieving an average sensitivity improvement of 16.5% (P-value<0.0001). Additionally, we characterized the scaling effect of using generated data which was as effective as the collected real-world data for training diagnostic models. Moreover, extensive experiments demonstrated that our approach improved the generalization ability of downstream models. Importantly, BUSGen protected patient privacy by enabling fully de-identified data sharing, making progress forward in secure medical data utilization. An online demo of BUSGen is available at https://aibus.bio.
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