arXiv:2503.20653eess.IVcs.CV2025-03

提出UWarp工具,精准对齐不同扫描仪的病理切片,揭示局部组织差异对模型影响。

UWarp: A Whole Slide Image Registration Pipeline to Characterize Scanner-Induced Local Domain Shift

  • 分层注册算法结合全局与局部校正,实现高精度切片对齐。
  • 中位目标配准误差小于4像素(40倍下<1微米),计算效率显著提升。
  • 发现模型预测变异与组织密度强相关,适用于提升病理模型鲁棒性研究。

组织病理学切片数字化会引入扫描仪导致的域偏移,严重影响基于深度学习的计算病理模型性能。现有方法多在整体层面(切片级或数据集级)刻画偏移,缺乏对局部区域的分析,限制了对组织特征影响模型准确性的理解。为此,我们提出基于UWarp的域偏移分析框架,UWarp是一种新型注册工具,可精准对齐在不同条件下扫描的组织切片。其采用分层注册策略,结合全局仿射变换与细粒度局部修正,实现稳健的组织切片对齐。我们在两个私有数据集CypathLung和BosomShieldBreast上评估UWarp,包含多设备扫描的全切片图像。实验表明,UWarp优于现有开源注册方法,中位目标配准误差(TRE)低于4像素(40x放大倍数下<1微米),同时显著降低计算时间。此外,我们将UWarp用于分析乳腺癌病理反应预测模型Breast-NEOprAIdict的预测结果,发现预测变异性与特定切片区域的组织密度密切相关。研究凸显局部域偏移分析的重要性,并表明UWarp可作为提升计算病理模型鲁棒性和领域自适应策略的关键工具。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Histopathology slide digitization introduces scanner-induced domain shift that can significantly impact computational pathology models based on deep learning methods. In the state-of-the-art, this shift is often characterized at a broad scale (slide-level or dataset-level) but not patch-level, which limits our comprehension of the impact of localized tissue characteristics on the accuracy of the deep learning models. To address this challenge, we present a domain shift analysis framework based on UWarp, a novel registration tool designed to accurately align histological slides scanned under varying conditions. UWarp employs a hierarchical registration approach, combining global affine transformations with fine-grained local corrections to achieve robust tissue patch alignment. We evaluate UWarp using two private datasets, CypathLung and BosomShieldBreast, containing whole slide images scanned by multiple devices. Our experiments demonstrate that UWarp outperforms existing open-source registration methods, achieving a median target registration error (TRE) of less than 4 pixels (<1 micrometer at 40x magnification) while significantly reducing computational time. Additionally, we apply UWarp to characterize scanner-induced local domain shift in the predictions of Breast-NEOprAIdict, a deep learning model for breast cancer pathological response prediction. We find that prediction variability is strongly correlated with tissue density on a given patch. Our findings highlight the importance of localized domain shift analysis and suggest that UWarp can serve as a valuable tool for improving model robustness and domain adaptation strategies in computational pathology.

病理图像域偏移图像配准深度学习

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