arXiv:2503.13131cs.CV2025-03被引 4

用生成模型构建健康关节图像,提升放射组学特征的个性化诊断性能。

Patient-specific radiomic feature selection with reconstructed healthy persona of knee MR images

  • 基于扩散模型生成患者特异性健康图像,扩充特征池。
  • 在膝关节异常、韧带撕裂等任务中达到或超越深度学习效果。
  • 兼顾可解释性,支持医生理解特征来源与定位决策依据。

传统放射组学特征可直接由放射科医生理解,但性能不如端到端深度学习模型。本研究提出一种方法:通过为每位患者学习选择最优放射组学特征,显著提升标准逻辑回归模型的性能。为此,利用在健康受试者上训练的去噪扩散模型,通过掩码修复生成患者特异性健康参照图像,构建无病灶基准特征集,拓展特征空间。该方法在分类一般异常、前交叉韧带撕裂和半月板撕裂等任务中表现优异,性能媲美甚至超过当前最先进的深度学习方法,同时保持放射组学特征的可解释性。通过临床案例展示,该方法支持人机可解释的特征发现与个体化视角选择,凸显了个性化特征选择与生成模型结合在可解释医疗决策中的潜力。代码已公开于 https://github.com/YaxiiC/RadiomicsPersona.git。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Classical radiomic features have been designed to describe image appearance and intensity patterns. These features are directly interpretable and readily understood by radiologists. Compared with end-to-end deep learning (DL) models, lower dimensional parametric models that use such radiomic features offer enhanced interpretability but lower comparative performance in clinical tasks. In this study, we propose an approach where a standard logistic regression model performance is substantially improved by learning to select radiomic features for individual patients, from a pool of candidate features. This approach has potentials to maintain the interpretability of such approaches while offering comparable performance to DL. We also propose to expand the feature pool by generating a patient-specific healthy persona via mask-inpainting using a denoising diffusion model trained on healthy subjects. Such a pathology-free baseline feature set allows further opportunity in novel feature discovery and improved condition classification. We demonstrate our method on multiple clinical tasks of classifying general abnormalities, anterior cruciate ligament tears, and meniscus tears. Experimental results demonstrate that our approach achieved comparable or even superior performance than state-of-the-art DL approaches while offering added interpretability by using radiomic features extracted from images and supplemented by generating healthy personas. Example clinical cases are discussed in-depth to demonstrate the intepretability-enabled utilities such as human-explainable feature discovery and patient-specific location/view selection. These findings highlight the potentials of the combination of subject-specific feature selection with generative models in augmenting radiomic analysis for more interpretable decision-making. The codes are available at: https://github.com/YaxiiC/RadiomicsPersona.git

放射组学生成模型可解释性医学影像

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