arXiv:2507.23110eess.IVcs.CV2025-07被引 2

针对医学影像领域序列差异导致的分割难题,提出新数据集与半监督方法。

Rethink Domain Generalization in Heterogeneous Sequence MRI Segmentation

  • 构建多中心3D MRI胰腺分割数据集,涵盖不同序列和中心差异
  • 跨序列分割性能提升61.63% Dice,显著优于现有技术
  • 适合研究医疗影像泛化、胰腺疾病诊断及模型鲁棒性优化者

临床磁共振(MR)扫描生成大量T1和T2序列,其外观差异远超不同机构间的差异。现有领域泛化评估主要关注跨中心变化,忽视了这一主导变异性。胰腺分割在腹部影像中仍具挑战:该器官体积小、形态不规则,被周围组织与脂肪包围,且常存在低T1对比度。当前先进深度网络在肝脏或肾脏分割上已实现>90% Dice分数,但对胰腺仍漏检20%-30%。尽管胰腺在早期癌症检测、手术规划和糖尿病研究中至关重要,却在公开跨域基准中系统性被低估。为弥合这一差距,我们提出PancreasDG——一个大规模多中心3D MRI胰腺分割数据集,用于研究医学影像中的领域泛化。该数据集包含来自六个机构的563例MRI扫描,覆盖静脉期与反相位序列,提供像素级精确胰腺标注,标注采用双盲两轮协议。通过全面分析,揭示三个关键发现:(i) 采样有限引入显著方差,可能被误判为分布偏移;(ii) 跨中心表现与同序列源域表现相关;(iii) 跨序列偏移需专用解决方案。我们还提出一种半监督方法,利用解剖不变性,在两个测试中心的跨序列分割中分别取得87.00% Dice,相比现有技术提升61.63%。PancreasDG为医学影像领域泛化设立新基准。数据集、代码与模型将公开于https://pancreasdg.netlify.app。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Clinical magnetic-resonance (MR) protocols generate many T1 and T2 sequences whose appearance differs more than the acquisition sites that produce them. Existing domain-generalization benchmarks focus almost on cross-center shifts and overlook this dominant source of variability. Pancreas segmentation remains a major challenge in abdominal imaging: the gland is small, irregularly, surrounded by organs and fat, and often suffers from low T1 contrast. State-of-the-art deep networks that already achieve >90% Dice on the liver or kidneys still miss 20-30% of the pancreas. The organ is also systematically under-represented in public cross-domain benchmarks, despite its clinical importance in early cancer detection, surgery, and diabetes research. To close this gap, we present PancreasDG, a large-scale multi-center 3D MRI pancreas segmentation dataset for investigating domain generalization in medical imaging. The dataset comprises 563 MRI scans from six institutions, spanning both venous phase and out-of-phase sequences, enabling study of both cross-center and cross-sequence variations with pixel-accurate pancreas masks created by a double-blind, two-pass protocol. Through comprehensive analysis, we reveal three insights: (i) limited sampling introduces significant variance that may be mistaken for distribution shifts, (ii) cross-center performance correlates with source domain performance for identical sequences, and (iii) cross-sequence shifts require specialized solutions. We also propose a semi-supervised approach that leverages anatomical invariances, significantly outperforming state-of-the-art domain generalization techniques with 61.63% Dice score improvements and 87.00% on two test centers for cross-sequence segmentation. PancreasDG sets a new benchmark for domain generalization in medical imaging. Dataset, code, and models will be available at https://pancreasdg.netlify.app.

医学影像胰腺分割领域泛化3D MRI

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