用统计方法控制医疗分割误报率,确保诊断安全可靠。
Statistical Management of the False Discovery Rate in Medical Instance Segmentation Based on Conformal Risk Control
- 基于可交换校准数据,动态调整分割阈值以匹配临床风险要求。
- 在测试集上严格控制假发现率(FDR)低于设定水平α,保证可靠性。
- 无需修改模型架构,适配主流医学图像分割模型与数据格式。
实例分割在医学图像分析中至关重要,能精准定位和勾画病灶、肿瘤及解剖结构。尽管深度学习模型如Mask R-CNN和BlendMask已取得显著进展,但在高风险医疗场景中的应用仍受限于置信度校准问题,可能导致误诊。为此,我们提出一种基于归纳预测理论的稳健质量控制框架。该框架创新性地构建了风险感知的动态阈值机制,根据临床需求自适应调整分割决策边界。具体而言,设计了一种校准感知损失函数,依据用户定义的风险水平α动态调节分割阈值。利用可交换校准数据,该方法确保测试数据上的期望假发现率(FDR)或假阴性率(FNR)以高概率低于α。框架兼容主流分割模型(如Mask R-CNN、BlendMask+ResNet-50-FPN)和数据集(PASCAL VOC格式),无需架构修改。实验结果表明,通过所开发的校准框架,我们在测试集上对FDR指标实现了严格的边界控制。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Instance segmentation plays a pivotal role in medical image analysis by enabling precise localization and delineation of lesions, tumors, and anatomical structures. Although deep learning models such as Mask R-CNN and BlendMask have achieved remarkable progress, their application in high-risk medical scenarios remains constrained by confidence calibration issues, which may lead to misdiagnosis. To address this challenge, we propose a robust quality control framework based on conformal prediction theory. This framework innovatively constructs a risk-aware dynamic threshold mechanism that adaptively adjusts segmentation decision boundaries according to clinical requirements.Specifically, we design a \textbf{calibration-aware loss function} that dynamically tunes the segmentation threshold based on a user-defined risk level $α$. Utilizing exchangeable calibration data, this method ensures that the expected FNR or FDR on test data remains below $α$ with high probability. The framework maintains compatibility with mainstream segmentation models (e.g., Mask R-CNN, BlendMask+ResNet-50-FPN) and datasets (PASCAL VOC format) without requiring architectural modifications. Empirical results demonstrate that we rigorously bound the FDR metric marginally over the test set via our developed calibration framework.
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