利用视网膜图像引导,实现无监督的胎盘血管分割,提升准确性与泛化能力。
Intermediate Domain-guided Adaptation for Unsupervised Chorioallantoic Membrane Vessel Segmentation
- 通过多尺度非对称翻译生成中间域图像,增强跨域特征交互
- 提出对比学习模块分离跨域特征,显著提升分割精度
- 首次构建公开胎盘血管数据集,适合医学图像分割研究者使用
绒毛膜羊膜(CAM)模型是研究血管生成的重要活体平台,尤其在肿瘤生长、药物递送和血管生物学领域应用广泛。由于血管拓扑与形态是评估血管生成的关键指标,精准分割对定量分析至关重要。然而,人工分割耗时费力且主观性强。现有研究中,针对CAM的分割算法有限,缺乏公开数据集导致性能不佳。为此,本文提出一种中间域引导的无监督自适应方法(IDA),利用CAM图像与视网膜图像的相似性,结合公开视网膜数据集,在无标注条件下训练CAM分割模型。具体地,设计多分辨率非对称翻译(MRAT)策略生成中间域图像以促进图像级交互,并引入中间域引导对比学习(IDCL)模块解耦跨域特征表示。该方法突破了传统无监督域适应仅关注源-目标直接对齐而忽略中间域信息的局限。值得注意的是,本文构建了首个公开的CAM数据集用于算法验证。大量实验证明,所提方法优于现有方法;同时在多个视网膜数据集上也表现出优异的无监督迁移性能,体现强大泛化能力。代码与数据集已开源:https://github.com/Light-47/IDA。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
The chorioallantoic membrane (CAM) model is a widely used in vivo platform for studying angiogenesis, especially in relation to tumor growth, drug delivery, and vascular biology.Since the topology and morphology of developing blood vessels is a key evaluation metric, accurate vessel segmentation is essential for quantitative analysis of angiogenesis. However, manual segmentation is extremely time-consuming, labor-intensive, and prone to inconsistency due to its subjective nature. Moreover, research on CAM vessel segmentation algorithms remains limited, and the lack of public datasets contributes to poor prediction performance. To address these challenges, we propose an innovative Intermediate Domain-guided Adaptation (IDA) method, which utilizes the similarity between CAM images and retinal images, along with existing public retinal datasets, to perform unsupervised training on CAM images. Specifically, we introduce a Multi-Resolution Asymmetric Translation (MRAT) strategy to generate intermediate images to promote image-level interaction. Then, an Intermediate Domain-guided Contrastive Learning (IDCL) module is developed to disentangle cross-domain feature representations. This method overcomes the limitations of existing unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) approaches, which primarily concentrate on directly source-target alignment while neglecting intermediate domain information. Notably, we create the first CAM dataset to validate the proposed algorithm. Extensive experiments on this dataset show that our method outperforms compared approaches. Moreover, it achieves superior performance in UDA tasks across retinal datasets, highlighting its strong generalization capability. The CAM dataset and source codes are available at https://github.com/Light-47/IDA.
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