arXiv:2506.20306cs.CV2025-06被引 3

为每名患者动态生成个性化影像特征指纹,提升膝关节MRI诊断准确率。

Radiomic fingerprints for knee MR images assessment

  • 基于深度学习为每位患者从海量特征中筛选预测性影像特征
  • 在膝关节异常、ACL撕裂等任务中达到或超过端到端深度学习模型性能
  • 兼顾可解释性与临床洞察,助力生物标志物发现

膝关节MRI的准确解读依赖临床专家判断,但存在变异大、可扩展性差的问题。现有影像组学方法使用统一的特征集(签名),在群体层面选定并应用于所有患者,虽具可解释性,却难以反映个体病理差异,导致性能受限。我们提出一种新型影像组学指纹框架,通过深度学习模型为每位患者动态构建特征集(指纹),从大规模特征池中预测相关性并选择对个体临床状况具有预测性的特征。该特征选择模型与低维逻辑回归分类器联合训练,实现下游分类。在膝关节异常、前交叉韧带(ACL)撕裂和半月板撕裂等多项诊断任务中,本方法表现相当于或优于当前最先进的端到端深度学习模型。更重要的是,其内在可解释性支持深入临床分析,促进真实病例的定量与定性验证,推动潜在生物标志物发现。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Accurate interpretation of knee MRI scans relies on expert clinical judgment, often with high variability and limited scalability. Existing radiomic approaches use a fixed set of radiomic features (the signature), selected at the population level and applied uniformly to all patients. While interpretable, these signatures are often too constrained to represent individual pathological variations. As a result, conventional radiomic-based approaches are found to be limited in performance, compared with recent end-to-end deep learning (DL) alternatives without using interpretable radiomic features. We argue that the individual-agnostic nature in current radiomic selection is not central to its intepretability, but is responsible for the poor generalization in our application. Here, we propose a novel radiomic fingerprint framework, in which a radiomic feature set (the fingerprint) is dynamically constructed for each patient, selected by a DL model. Unlike the existing radiomic signatures, our fingerprints are derived on a per-patient basis by predicting the feature relevance in a large radiomic feature pool, and selecting only those that are predictive of clinical conditions for individual patients. The radiomic-selecting model is trained simultaneously with a low-dimensional (considered relatively explainable) logistic regression for downstream classification. We validate our methods across multiple diagnostic tasks including general knee abnormalities, anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tears, and meniscus tears, demonstrating comparable or superior diagnostic accuracy relative to state-of-the-art end-to-end DL models. More importantly, we show that the interpretability inherent in our approach facilitates meaningful clinical insights and potential biomarker discovery, with detailed discussion, quantitative and qualitative analysis of real-world clinical cases to evidence these advantages.

影像组学膝关节MRI可解释性个性化医疗

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