提出统一框架,让医学影像分割在有无源数据时都能自适应且可解释。
Unified and Semantically Grounded Domain Adaptation for Medical Image Segmentation
- 构建解耦的解剖学概率流形,分离共性结构与个体差异。
- 源不可用时性能逼近源可用情况,超越现有方法一致性。
- 适合需要可解释性与跨域泛化的医疗图像分割研究者。
大多数先前的无监督领域自适应方法针对源数据可访问或不可访问两种场景分别设计,前者依赖源-目标对齐,后者依赖伪标签等隐式机制。两者方法差异揭示了缺乏显式、结构化的解剖知识建模。为此,本文提出统一的语义化领域自适应框架,支持两种设置。模型通过学习一个与领域无关的概率流形作为解剖规律的全局空间,使每幅图像的结构可被解析为从流形中检索到的标准解剖形态与个体特异性空间变换。该解耦可解释架构自然产生自适应能力,无需显式跨域对齐。在心脏与腹部等多个挑战性数据集上的实验表明,该框架在两种设置下均达到领先性能,源不可用时表现接近源可用情况,一致性远超以往工作。结果为医学影像领域自适应提供了可解释、解剖引导的统一解决方案。代码已公开。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Most prior unsupervised domain adaptation approaches for medical image segmentation are narrowly tailored to either the source-accessible setting, where adaptation is guided by source-target alignment, or the source-free setting, which typically resorts to implicit adaptation mechanisms such as pseudo-labeling and network distillation. This substantial divergence in methodological designs between the two settings reveals an inherent flaw: the lack of an explicit, structured construction of anatomical knowledge that naturally generalizes across domains and settings. To bridge this longstanding divide, we introduce a unified, semantically grounded framework that supports both source-accessible and source-free adaptation. Fundamentally distinct from all prior works, our framework's adaptability emerges naturally as a direct consequence of the model architecture, without relying on explicit cross-domain alignment strategies. Specifically, our model learns a domain-agnostic probabilistic manifold as a global space of anatomical regularities, mirroring how humans establish visual understanding. Thus, the structural content in each image can be interpreted as a canonical anatomy retrieved from the manifold and a spatial transformation capturing individual-specific geometry. This disentangled, interpretable formulation enables semantically meaningful prediction with intrinsic adaptability. Extensive experiments on challenging cardiac and abdominal datasets show that our framework achieves state-of-the-art results in both settings, with source-free performance closely approaching its source-accessible counterpart, a level of consistency rarely observed in prior works. The results provide a principled foundation for anatomically informed, interpretable, and unified solutions for domain adaptation in medical imaging. The code is available at https://github.com/wxdrizzle/remind
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