通过双任务协同提升胰腺癌分割模型泛化能力,显著改善跨病灶识别效果。
A Dual-Task Synergy-Driven Generalization Framework for Pancreatic Cancer Segmentation in CT Scans
- 融合像素分类与回归任务,同步优化轮廓精度与病灶空间关系建模
- 在跨数据集测试中提升9.51%的分割性能,Dice达84.07%
- 适合需要高泛化能力的医学图像分割场景,尤其关注胰腺癌诊疗
胰腺癌因其高发病率和死亡率,亟需精准的病灶分割以支持诊断与治疗。现有方法因影像差异大、病灶异质性强(易与正常组织混淆,患者间差异显著),泛化能力受限。为此,提出一种双任务协同泛化框架,联合像素级分类与回归任务,既精确定位病灶边界,又建模病变与正常组织的空间关系,提升肿瘤定位与形态表征能力。通过任务输出的相互转化,在分割过程中引入额外回归监督,从双任务角度增强模型泛化性。同时,采用特征空间与输出空间的双重自监督学习,强化模型在不同成像视角下的表示能力与稳定性。在包含三个差异显著数据集的594例样本上验证,该框架在域内验证中达到主流水平(Dice: 84.07%),更重要的是,在极具挑战性的跨病灶泛化分割任务中性能提升9.51%。本模型为胰腺疾病管理及更广泛医疗应用提供了稳健高效的底层技术支撑。代码将发布于 https://github.com/SJTUBME-QianLab/Dual-Task-Seg。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Pancreatic cancer, characterized by its notable prevalence and mortality rates, demands accurate lesion delineation for effective diagnosis and therapeutic interventions. The generalizability of extant methods is frequently compromised due to the pronounced variability in imaging and the heterogeneous characteristics of pancreatic lesions, which may mimic normal tissues and exhibit significant inter-patient variability. Thus, we propose a generalization framework that synergizes pixel-level classification and regression tasks, to accurately delineate lesions and improve model stability. This framework not only seeks to align segmentation contours with actual lesions but also uses regression to elucidate spatial relationships between diseased and normal tissues, thereby improving tumor localization and morphological characterization. Enhanced by the reciprocal transformation of task outputs, our approach integrates additional regression supervision within the segmentation context, bolstering the model's generalization ability from a dual-task perspective. Besides, dual self-supervised learning in feature spaces and output spaces augments the model's representational capability and stability across different imaging views. Experiments on 594 samples composed of three datasets with significant imaging differences demonstrate that our generalized pancreas segmentation results comparable to mainstream in-domain validation performance (Dice: 84.07%). More importantly, it successfully improves the results of the highly challenging cross-lesion generalized pancreatic cancer segmentation task by 9.51%. Thus, our model constitutes a resilient and efficient foundational technological support for pancreatic disease management and wider medical applications. The codes will be released at https://github.com/SJTUBME-QianLab/Dual-Task-Seg.
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