arXiv:2508.13899cs.CV2025-08被引 1

通过分离病变与干扰信号,提升超声图像分割精度

CARE: Anti-entanglement Ultrasound Image Segmentation via Channel-Aware Region Extrication

  • 按病变相关性分离特征,再交互校正互补表示
  • 在BUSI、BUSIS、TN3K上均超越现有方法
  • 适合需要高精度分割的医学影像分析场景

超声图像分割受病变与背景纠缠的挑战,病变特征常被相似外观的组织和伪影掩盖。现有方法虽能较好定位可疑区域,但因仅强化特征提取或上下文聚合,难以区分病变与干扰,导致预测模糊。为此,提出通道感知区域分离(CARE)框架,通过逐步剥离与病变相关的响应,再通过相互区域交互重新评估互补表示,恢复被抑制的病变信号并修正误导性上下文激活。该方法直接在学习表征中增强目标与上下文的区分能力,不牺牲定位质量。在BUSI、BUSIS、TN3K三个基准上的实验表明,CARE持续取得更优性能,验证了表征分离对解决超声分割固有视觉模糊的有效性。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Accurate ultrasound image segmentation is fundamentally challenged by target-context entanglement, where lesion cues are easily mixed with surrounding tissues and artifacts of similar appearance. Although existing methods often localize suspicious regions reasonably well, they remain vulnerable to ambiguous predictions because they mainly strengthen feature extraction or context aggregation, rather than explicitly organizing how lesion and interference cues are represented and distinguished. To address this limitation, we propose Channel-Aware Region Extrication (CARE), a segmentation framework that improves ultrasound segmentation by progressively extricating lesion evidence from visually entangled context. Instead of merely reweighting features, CARE explicitly separates encoded responses according to their lesion relevance and then re-evaluates the resulting complementary representations through reciprocal region interaction, so that suppressed lesion cues can be recovered while misleading contextual activations are corrected. In this way, CARE promotes target-context discrimination directly in the learned representation, without sacrificing localization quality. Extensive experiments on BUSI, BUSIS, and TN3K benchmarks show that CARE consistently achieves superior performance, thereby validating representation extrication as an effective solution for addressing the inherent visual ambiguity in ultrasound segmentation.

超声分割医学图像表征分离

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