arXiv:2507.07920eess.IVcs.CV2025-07被引 2

ArteryX实现脑血管3D图像自动标准化分析,减少人工干预

ArteryX: A Reliable End-to-End Toolbox for Standardized Intracranial Artery Feature Extraction from 3D TOF-MRA

  • 基于图结构与关键点分类,统一处理近端和远端血管段
  • 在3个数据集上验证,半径测量偏差小,对噪声更鲁棒
  • 适合脑血管疾病研究者,支持可复现分析流程

脑血管研究依赖于时间飞越磁共振血管成像中颅内动脉的定量分析,但现有处理流程受限于动脉标注不一致和高人工修正成本。我们提出ArteryX,一个端到端工具箱,用于标准化提取颅内动脉特征。其整合了分割处理、各向同性建模、血管融合图构建及约束关键点分类,形成针对动脉的特征报告与可复现工作流。该工具箱提取形态、拓扑与复杂度特征,包括总长度、平均半径、体积、表面积、分支数、迂曲度和分形维数。测试使用三个互补数据集:(1)TopBrain挑战基准(带标注动脉),(2)合成已知参考验证,(3)脑小血管病在体队列(48例+,20例-)。在TopBrain分析中,使用监督nnUnet分割的ArteryX偏差最小,而iCafe偏差最高且一致性差。ArteryX在不同分割源下均表现稳健,半径测量偏差小,对噪声环境下扩展相关指标敏感性优于当前最优iCafe。阶段式人机协同协议的干预时间也低于iCafe。在在体队列中,ArteryX导出的远端与区域级特征显示出组间差异,而iCafe未能识别。为促进应用与可复现性,ArteryX提供版本化构建、教程与文档。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Cerebrovascular research heavily relies on quantitative analysis of intracranial arteries from time-of-flight magnetic resonance angiography, yet existing processing pipelines remain limited by inconsistent artery labeling and a high manual correction burden. We present ArteryX, a toolbox for extracting features that standardizes artery classification across proximal and distal vascular territories. It integrates segmentation handling, isotropic processing, vessel-fused graph construction, and constrained landmark-based classification within a unified artery-specific feature reporting and reproducible workflow. The toolbox extracts morphological, topological, and complexity features including total length, mean radius, volume, surface area, branch count, tortuosity, and fractal dimensionality for standardized artery-segments. Test-and-validation were performed using three complementary datasets: (1)TopBrain-Challenge benchmarking with annotated arteries, (2)synthetic known-reference validation, and (3)exploratory in-vivo cohort of cerebral small vessel disease. In TopBrain analyses, ArteryX with supervised nnUnet segmentation showed minimal bias, while iCafe showed the highest bias and a large limit-of-agreement. ArteryX consistently demonstrated robust downstream quantification performance across segmentation sources (unsupervised/supervised). Agreement analyses showed minimal bias for radius and good sensitivity of extent-dependent metrics throughout the noisier segmentations compared to the state-of-the-art iCafe-toolbox. Furthermore, a stage-wise human-in-the-loop protocol showed lower intervention time than iCafe. In an in-vivo-cohort (48CSVD+, 20CSVD-), ArteryX-derived distal and territory-level features showed group-level differences, not evident with iCafe. To facilitate adoption-and-reproducibility, ArteryX is designed with versioned builds, tutorials, and documentation.

脑血管分析3D分割自动化医学影像

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