arXiv:2505.18989cs.CV2025-05中稿 · Medical Image Unde…被引 2

用少量病灶存在标签实现肝脏肿瘤精准分割,大幅降低标注成本。

SPARS: Self-Play Adversarial Reinforcement Learning for Segmentation of Liver Tumours

  • 通过自对弈强化学习框架,仅用图像级有无癌变标签训练分割模型。
  • 在真实患者数据上达到77.3±9.4的平均Dice分数,超越多数弱监督方法。
  • 适合标注资源稀缺但需高精度肿瘤定位的临床场景。

准确的肿瘤分割对癌症靶向诊疗(如活检或消融术规划)至关重要。手动勾画耗时费力,依赖大量昂贵且主观的3D体素级标注。现有全监督模型虽性能好,但标注成本高,且标签差异影响泛化能力。组织病理学标签更客观,但在体内获取像素级标注仍不可行。本文提出新型弱监督语义分割框架SPARS(自对弈对抗强化学习分割),利用少量图像级二分类癌变标签(来自活检与病理报告)训练目标存在分类器,从而定位CT扫描中的癌变区域。实验显示,SPARS在真实患者数据上取得77.3±9.4的平均Dice分数,显著优于其他弱监督方法,接近需体素级标注的最新全监督模型。结果表明,SPARS可大幅减少对人工标注的依赖,适用于现实医疗环境中的癌症检测。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Accurate tumour segmentation is vital for various targeted diagnostic and therapeutic procedures for cancer, e.g., planning biopsies or tumour ablations. Manual delineation is extremely labour-intensive, requiring substantial expert time. Fully-supervised machine learning models aim to automate such localisation tasks, but require a large number of costly and often subjective 3D voxel-level labels for training. The high-variance and subjectivity in such labels impacts model generalisability, even when large datasets are available. Histopathology labels may offer more objective labels but the infeasibility of acquiring pixel-level annotations to develop tumour localisation methods based on histology remains challenging in-vivo. In this work, we propose a novel weakly-supervised semantic segmentation framework called SPARS (Self-Play Adversarial Reinforcement Learning for Segmentation), which utilises an object presence classifier, trained on a small number of image-level binary cancer presence labels, to localise cancerous regions on CT scans. Such binary labels of patient-level cancer presence can be sourced more feasibly from biopsies and histopathology reports, enabling a more objective cancer localisation on medical images. Evaluating with real patient data, we observed that SPARS yielded a mean dice score of $77.3 \pm 9.4$, which outperformed other weakly-supervised methods by large margins. This performance was comparable with recent fully-supervised methods that require voxel-level annotations. Our results demonstrate the potential of using SPARS to reduce the need for extensive human-annotated labels to detect cancer in real-world healthcare settings.

肿瘤分割弱监督医学影像强化学习

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