arXiv:2507.04008eess.IVcs.CV2025-07被引 1

针对血管分割中细分支遗漏和拓扑错误问题,提出可插拔的自学习卷积与分层拓扑约束方法。

PASC-Net:Plug-and-play Shape Self-learning Convolutions Network with Hierarchical Topology Constraints for Vessel Segmentation

  • 设计可自学习的条带卷积,提升对管状结构的感知能力。
  • 引入分层拓扑约束,有效防止血管树分叉处断连。
  • 在U-Net、nnUNet等框架中均显著提升分割精度,适合医学图像分析场景。

准确的血管分割对临床诊断至关重要。然而,血管复杂的树状管状结构给现有分割算法带来挑战:低对比度的小分支常被忽略,导致分割不完整;复杂的拓扑结构使模型难以准确捕捉和重建血管结构,出现分叉处断连等问题。为此,我们提出PASC-Net框架,包含两个关键模块:可插拔的形状自学习卷积(SSL)模块优化卷积核设计,将传统卷积改进为可学习的条带卷积,增强网络对管状解剖结构的细粒度特征感知能力;层级拓扑约束(HTC)模块通过线性、平面和体级的拓扑约束,规范血管连续性与结构一致性。我们将标准卷积层替换为SSL卷积,在U-Net、FCN、U-Mamba和nnUNet中均实现性能一致提升。集成至nnUNet后,在多个指标上超越现有方法,达到血管分割最先进水平。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Accurate vessel segmentation is crucial to assist in clinical diagnosis by medical experts. However, the intricate tree-like tubular structure of blood vessels poses significant challenges for existing segmentation algorithms. Small vascular branches are often overlooked due to their low contrast compared to surrounding tissues, leading to incomplete vessel segmentation. Furthermore, the complex vascular topology prevents the model from accurately capturing and reconstructing vascular structure, resulting in incorrect topology, such as breakpoints at the bifurcation of the vascular tree. To overcome these challenges, we propose a novel vessel segmentation framework called PASC Net. It includes two key modules: a plug-and-play shape self-learning convolutional (SSL) module that optimizes convolution kernel design, and a hierarchical topological constraint (HTC) module that ensures vascular connectivity through topological constraints. Specifically, the SSL module enhances adaptability to vascular structures by optimizing conventional convolutions into learnable strip convolutions, which improves the network's ability to perceive fine-grained features of tubular anatomies. Furthermore, to better preserve the coherence and integrity of vascular topology, the HTC module incorporates hierarchical topological constraints-spanning linear, planar, and volumetric levels-which serve to regularize the network's representation of vascular continuity and structural consistency. We replaced the standard convolutional layers in U-Net, FCN, U-Mamba, and nnUNet with SSL convolutions, leading to consistent performance improvements across all architectures. Furthermore, when integrated into the nnUNet framework, our method outperformed other methods on multiple metrics, achieving state-of-the-art vascular segmentation performance.

血管分割拓扑约束自学习卷积医学图像

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