用3万张合成CT数据训练出可跨肿瘤诊断的医学影像模型
A Synthetic Data-Driven Radiology Foundation Model for Pan-tumor Clinical Diagnosis
- 基于合成数据生成30,000张带病灶标注的3D CT影像
- 在45项肿瘤任务中达到顶尖水平,提升诊断效率11%-78%
- 帮助新手医生接近专家表现,适合临床辅助系统开发
AI辅助影像在肿瘤诊断中取得显著进展,但构建稳健的肿瘤基础模型面临高质量标注数据稀缺的瓶颈,受限于隐私保护和人工标注成本。为此,我们提出PASTA,一个基于PASTA-Gen合成数据框架的泛肿瘤放射学基础模型,该框架生成了30,000张包含十种器官系统肿瘤的3D CT扫描,附带像素级病灶掩码和结构化报告。利用此数据,PASTA在46项肿瘤任务中的45项上达到最先进水平,涵盖非增强CT肿瘤筛查、病灶分割、结构化报告生成、肿瘤分期、生存预测及多模态迁移。为评估临床适用性,我们开发了PASTA-AID临床决策支持系统,并在两种场景下开展回顾性模拟临床试验。在固定阅片时间的泛肿瘤筛查中,PASTA-AID使放射科医生工作效率提升11.1%-25.1%,敏感度提高17.0%-31.4%,精确度提升10.5%-24.9%;在诊断辅助流程中,分割时间减少高达78.2%,报告时间减少最多36.5%。此外,PASTA-AID缩小了经验差距,使低年资医生表现趋近专家水平。本研究建立了一条从合成数据生成、模型训练到临床验证的全流程闭环路径,展现出泛肿瘤研究与临床转化的巨大潜力。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
AI-assisted imaging made substantial advances in tumor diagnosis and management. However, a major barrier to developing robust oncology foundation models is the scarcity of large-scale, high-quality annotated datasets, which are limited by privacy restrictions and the high cost of manual labeling. To address this gap, we present PASTA, a pan-tumor radiology foundation model built on PASTA-Gen, a synthetic data framework that generated 30,000 3D CT scans with pixel-level lesion masks and structured reports of tumors across ten organ systems. Leveraging this resource, PASTA achieves state-of-the-art performance on 45 of 46 oncology tasks, including non-contrast CT tumor screening, lesion segmentation, structured reporting, tumor staging, survival prediction, and MRI-modality transfer. To assess clinical applicability, we developed PASTA-AID, a clinical decision support system, and ran a retrospective simulated clinical trial across two scenarios. For pan-tumor screening on plain CT with fixed reading time, PASTA-AID increased radiologists' throughput by 11.1-25.1% and improved sensitivity by 17.0-31.4% and precision by 10.5-24.9%; additionally, in a diagnosis-aid workflow, it reduced segmentation time by up to 78.2% and reporting time by up to 36.5%. Beyond gains in accuracy and efficiency, PASTA-AID narrowed the expertise gap, enabling less-experienced radiologists to approach expert-level performance. Together, this work establishes an end-to-end, synthetic data-driven pipeline spanning data generation, model development, and clinical validation, thereby demonstrating substantial potential for pan-tumor research and clinical translation.
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