arXiv:2506.14497eess.IVcs.CV2025-06被引 6

用最大熵正则化提升脑部影像分割的可靠性,尤其在设备差异下更准更可信。

Towards Reliable WMH Segmentation under Domain Shift: An Application Study using Maximum Entropy Regularization to Improve Uncertainty Estimation

  • 引入最大熵正则化增强模型对不确定性的敏感度。
  • 不确定性预测与分割误差相关性提升,校准误差降低27%。
  • 适合临床部署后检测错误,无需真实标签即可评估模型表现。

白质高信号(WMH)精准分割对多发性硬化症等疾病的临床决策至关重要。然而,不同MRI设备或扫描参数带来的域偏移会严重影响模型校准与不确定性估计。本文提出最大熵正则化方法,以改善模型在域偏移下的校准能力与不确定性估计性能,利用预测不确定性作为无真值标签的错误识别代理。实验基于U-Net架构,在两个公开数据集上评估,使用Dice系数、预期校准误差及基于熵的不确定性指标进行分析。结果表明,基于熵的不确定性可有效预判分割错误,且最大熵正则化进一步增强了不确定性与分割性能的相关性,并在域偏移下显著提升模型校准效果。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Accurate segmentation of white matter hyperintensities (WMH) is crucial for clinical decision-making, particularly in the context of multiple sclerosis. However, domain shifts, such as variations in MRI machine types or acquisition parameters, pose significant challenges to model calibration and uncertainty estimation. This study investigates the impact of domain shift on WMH segmentation by proposing maximum-entropy regularization techniques to enhance model calibration and uncertainty estimation, with the purpose of identifying errors post-deployment using predictive uncertainty as a proxy measure that does not require ground-truth labels. To do this, we conducted experiments using a U-Net architecture to evaluate these regularization schemes on two publicly available datasets, assessing performance with the Dice coefficient, expected calibration error, and entropy-based uncertainty estimates. Our results show that entropy-based uncertainty estimates can anticipate segmentation errors, and that maximum-entropy regularization further strengthens the correlation between uncertainty and segmentation performance while also improving model calibration under domain shift.

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