arXiv:2507.12269cs.CVcs.AI2025-07

用出生首日胸片预测早产儿肺病,提升早期预警准确性。

Site-Level Fine-Tuning with Progressive Layer Freezing: Towards Robust Prediction of Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia from Day-1 Chest Radiographs in Extremely Preterm Infants

  • 采用渐进式层冻结与线性探测,防止过拟合。
  • 模型在163例早产儿上达AUROC 0.78,显著优于通用预训练。
  • 适合临床部署,支持多中心联邦学习应用。

支气管肺发育不良(BPD)是影响35%极低出生体重婴儿的慢性肺病,定义为胎龄36周时仍需吸氧,导致终身呼吸系统问题。但预防性干预风险高,因此早期预测至关重要。出生24小时内获取的常规胸片可作为无创预后工具。本研究基于163名极低出生体重儿(≤32周孕周,401-999克)的出生首日胸片,使用在成人胸片上预训练的ResNet-50,结合渐进式层冻结与判别性学习率,评估CutMix增强与线性探测。针对中重度BPD预测,最佳模型(渐进冻结+线性探测+CutMix)达到AUROC 0.78±0.10、平衡准确率0.69±0.10、F1-score 0.67±0.11。领域内预训练显著优于ImageNet初始化(p=0.031),证实领域特定预训练的重要性。常规IRDS分级仅达AUROC 0.57±0.11,提示其预后价值有限。结果表明,通过领域预训练与渐进冻结,可从常规首日胸片实现精准BPD预测,方法计算高效,适用于机构级部署与未来联邦学习。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) is a chronic lung disease affecting 35% of extremely low birth weight infants. Defined by oxygen dependence at 36 weeks postmenstrual age, it causes lifelong respiratory complications. However, preventive interventions carry severe risks, including neurodevelopmental impairment, ventilator-induced lung injury, and systemic complications. Therefore, early BPD prognosis and prediction of BPD outcome is crucial to avoid unnecessary toxicity in low risk infants. Admission radiographs of extremely preterm infants are routinely acquired within 24h of life and could serve as a non-invasive prognostic tool. In this work, we developed and investigated a deep learning approach using chest X-rays from 163 extremely low-birth-weight infants ($\leq$32 weeks gestation, 401-999g) obtained within 24 hours of birth. We fine-tuned a ResNet-50 pretrained specifically on adult chest radiographs, employing progressive layer freezing with discriminative learning rates to prevent overfitting and evaluated a CutMix augmentation and linear probing. For moderate/severe BPD outcome prediction, our best performing model with progressive freezing, linear probing and CutMix achieved an AUROC of 0.78 $\pm$ 0.10, balanced accuracy of 0.69 $\pm$ 0.10, and an F1-score of 0.67 $\pm$ 0.11. In-domain pre-training significantly outperformed ImageNet initialization (p = 0.031) which confirms domain-specific pretraining to be important for BPD outcome prediction. Routine IRDS grades showed limited prognostic value (AUROC 0.57 $\pm$ 0.11), confirming the need of learned markers. Our approach demonstrates that domain-specific pretraining enables accurate BPD prediction from routine day-1 radiographs. Through progressive freezing and linear probing, the method remains computationally feasible for site-level implementation and future federated learning deployments.

医学影像深度学习早产儿预训练

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