融合医学知识提升脑肿瘤分割精度,尤其改善模糊边界区域表现。
Knowledge-Guided Brain Tumor Segmentation via Synchronized Visual-Semantic-Topological Prior Fusion
- 引入视觉-语义-拓扑三重先验,动态加权融合
- 在BraTS 2020上达0.868平均Dice,领先基线2.6个百分点
- 适合需要高精度分割的临床场景与可解释性研究
背景:脑肿瘤分割需从多序列MRI中精确勾画层级结构。现有深度学习方法主要依赖视觉特征,在模糊边界区域区分能力不足,且缺乏对解剖语义与几何拓扑等医学领域知识的显式整合。方法:提出知识引导框架STPF,显式融合三种异构先验:病理驱动的差异特征(T1ce-T1、T2-FLAIR、T1/T2)编码对比模式;通过空间化算子转换为体素级指导的无监督语义描述;以及基于持久同调分析提取的几何约束。采用双层融合架构,基于置信度在体素级动态分配先验权重,并通过超网络生成条件向量在样本级进行加权。嵌套输出头结构确保层次约束ET ⊆ TC ⊆ WT。结果:STPF在BraTS 2020数据集上达到0.868的平均Dice系数,优于最佳基线2.6个百分点(相对提升3.09%)。五折交叉验证系数变异范围为0.23%~0.33%,性能稳定。消融实验显示,移除拓扑与语义先验分别导致性能下降2.8%和3.5%。结论:通过显式整合解剖语义与几何约束等医学先验,STPF显著提升模糊边界区域分割精度,具备良好泛化能力与临床部署潜力。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Background: Brain tumor segmentation requires precise delineation of hierarchical structures from multi-sequence MRI. However, existing deep learning methods primarily rely on visual features, showing insufficient discriminative power in ambiguous boundary regions. Moreover, they lack explicit integration of medical domain knowledge such as anatomical semantics and geometric topology. Methods: We propose a knowledge-guided framework, Synchronized Tri-modal Prior Fusion (STPF), that explicitly integrates three heterogeneous knowledge priors: pathology-driven differential features (T1ce-T1, T2-FLAIR, T1/T2) encoding contrast patterns; unsupervised semantic descriptions transformed into voxel-level guidance via spatialization operators; and geometric constraints extracted through persistent homology analysis. A dual-level fusion architecture dynamically allocates prior weights at the voxel level based on confidence and at the sample level through hypernetwork-generated conditional vectors. Furthermore, nested output heads structurally ensure the hierarchical constraint ET subset TC subset WT. Results: STPF achieves a mean Dice coefficient of 0.868 on the BraTS 2020 dataset, surpassing the best baseline by 2.6 percentage points (3.09% relative improvement). Notably, five-fold cross-validation yields coefficients of variation between 0.23% and 0.33%, demonstrating stable performance. Additionally, ablation experiments show that removing topological and semantic priors leads to performance degradation of 2.8% and 3.5%, respectively. Conclusions: By explicitly integrating medical knowledge priors - anatomical semantics and geometric constraints - STPF improves segmentation accuracy in ambiguous boundary regions while demonstrating generalization capability and clinical deployment potential.
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