arXiv:2505.24739eess.IVcs.CV2025-05

利用多回波MRI自监督学习,实现胎盘分割的高精度与抗对比度变化能力

Contrast-Invariant Self-supervised Segmentation for Quantitative Placental MRI

  • 通过多回波信息融合和自监督预训练,学习对对比度不敏感的特征表示
  • 在临床数据上跨回波时间泛化表现优异,分割精度显著高于单回波与简单拼接方法
  • 适合产科影像分析、医学图像分割研究者,尤其关注弱标注场景下的模型鲁棒性

准确的胎盘分割对于胎盘定量分析至关重要。然而,在T2*-加权胎盘成像中,该任务面临三大挑战:(1) 各回波间边界对比度弱且不一致;(2) 缺乏所有回波时间的手动标注真值;(3) 胎儿与母体运动导致的回波间运动伪影。本文提出一种对比度增强的分割框架,利用多回波T2* MRI中的互补信息,学习鲁棒且对比度不变的表征。方法包含:(i) 使用掩码自编码(MAE)在无标签多回波切片上进行自监督预训练;(ii) 采用掩码伪标签(MPL)实现回波间无监督域适应;(iii) 引入全局-局部协同机制,对齐细粒度特征与整体解剖上下文。进一步设计语义匹配损失,促进同一受试者不同回波间表征一致性。在临床多回波胎盘MRI数据集上的实验表明,该方法在回波间具有良好泛化能力,优于单回波及朴素融合基线。据我们所知,这是首个系统利用多回波T2* MRI进行胎盘分割的工作。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Accurate placental segmentation is essential for quantitative analysis of the placenta. However, this task is particularly challenging in T2*-weighted placental imaging due to: (1) weak and inconsistent boundary contrast across individual echoes; (2) the absence of manual ground truth annotations for all echo times; and (3) motion artifacts across echoes caused by fetal and maternal movement. In this work, we propose a contrast-augmented segmentation framework that leverages complementary information across multi-echo T2*-weighted MRI to learn robust, contrast-invariant representations. Our method integrates: (i) masked autoencoding (MAE) for self-supervised pretraining on unlabeled multi-echo slices; (ii) masked pseudo-labeling (MPL) for unsupervised domain adaptation across echo times; and (iii) global-local collaboration to align fine-grained features with global anatomical context. We further introduce a semantic matching loss to encourage representation consistency across echoes of the same subject. Experiments on a clinical multi-echo placental MRI dataset demonstrate that our approach generalizes effectively across echo times and outperforms both single-echo and naive fusion baselines. To our knowledge, this is the first work to systematically exploit multi-echo T2*-weighted MRI for placental segmentation.

胎盘分割自监督学习多回波MRI医学图像分析

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