arXiv:2504.12718eess.IVcs.AI2025-04被引 1

无需标注即可实现组织与细胞的多层级分割,提升病理分析透明度与效率

TUMLS: Trustful Fully Unsupervised Multi-Level Segmentation for Whole Slide Images of Histology

  • 用自编码器在低分辨率图中识别组织类型,按不确定性选代表区域
  • 在高分辨率空间无监督分割细胞核,F1达77.46%,超越所有无监督方法
  • 结果可解释性强,适合临床工作流程整合,提升病理诊断可信度

数字病理学借助人工智能有望提升病理科医生的工作效率,但全切片图像(WSI)的标注耗时、计算成本高,且缺乏预测不确定性估计,制约了当前AI方法的实际应用。为此,我们提出一种新型可信的全无监督多层级分割方法(TUMLS)。TUMLS采用自编码器(AE)作为特征提取器,在低分辨率数据中识别不同组织类型,并基于不确定性度量选取各组代表性图像块,随后在高分辨率空间内进行无监督细胞核分割,不依赖任何机器学习算法。该方法无缝融入临床工作流程,将整张切片检查转化为对清晰可解释的跨层级洞察的审阅,显著提升效率并增强透明性。我们在UPENN-GBM数据集上评估,自编码器均方误差(MSE)为0.0016;在MoNuSeg数据集上进行细胞核分割评估,F1分数达77.46%,交并比(Jaccard)为63.35%,优于所有现有无监督方法。结果验证了TUMLS在数字病理学中的有效性。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Digital pathology, augmented by artificial intelligence (AI), holds significant promise for improving the workflow of pathologists. However, challenges such as the labor-intensive annotation of whole slide images (WSIs), high computational demands, and trust concerns arising from the absence of uncertainty estimation in predictions hinder the practical application of current AI methodologies in histopathology. To address these issues, we present a novel trustful fully unsupervised multi-level segmentation methodology (TUMLS) for WSIs. TUMLS adopts an autoencoder (AE) as a feature extractor to identify the different tissue types within low-resolution training data. It selects representative patches from each identified group based on an uncertainty measure and then does unsupervised nuclei segmentation in their respective higher-resolution space without using any ML algorithms. Crucially, this solution integrates seamlessly into clinicians workflows, transforming the examination of a whole WSI into a review of concise, interpretable cross-level insights. This integration significantly enhances and accelerates the workflow while ensuring transparency. We evaluated our approach using the UPENN-GBM dataset, where the AE achieved a mean squared error (MSE) of 0.0016. Additionally, nucleus segmentation is assessed on the MoNuSeg dataset, outperforming all unsupervised approaches with an F1 score of 77.46% and a Jaccard score of 63.35%. These results demonstrate the efficacy of TUMLS in advancing the field of digital pathology.

数字病理无监督分割多层级分析可解释性

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