提出多区域多尺度框架,提升细粒度肾小球病变检测精度
M^3-GloDets: Multi-Region and Multi-Scale Analysis of Fine-Grained Diseased Glomerular Detection
- 构建多区域多尺度分析框架,系统评估检测模型表现
- 中等切片尺寸平衡上下文与效率,适度放大率提升泛化能力
- 为数字病理自动化检测提供可落地的优化策略
准确检测病态肾小球是推动肾脏病理学发展和实现可靠临床诊断的基础。尽管计算机视觉技术已进步显著,但多数研究仍集中于正常肾小球或全局硬化病例,对多种细微病变亚型的研究相对不足。这些病变类型形态特征复杂且高度变异,常超出当前先进模型的识别能力。同时,关于最佳成像放大倍数与视野范围的选择仍存争议,增加了精细分类与鲁棒分割的难度。为此,我们提出M^3-GloDet框架,系统评估模型在不同区域、尺度与类别上的表现。通过模拟真实数字肾病理中的多样化视野大小与分辨率,对比经典基准架构与最新SOTA模型,发现中等切片尺寸能最佳平衡上下文信息与计算效率,适度放大率有助于降低过拟合,提升泛化性。本研究旨在深化对模型优劣的理解,为自动化检测策略及临床工作流优化提供可操作洞见。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Accurate detection of diseased glomeruli is fundamental to progress in renal pathology and underpins the delivery of reliable clinical diagnoses. Although recent advances in computer vision have produced increasingly sophisticated detection algorithms, the majority of research efforts have focused on normal glomeruli or instances of global sclerosis, leaving the wider spectrum of diseased glomerular subtypes comparatively understudied. This disparity is not without consequence; the nuanced and highly variable morphological characteristics that define these disease variants frequently elude even the most advanced computational models. Moreover, ongoing debate surrounds the choice of optimal imaging magnifications and region-of-view dimensions for fine-grained glomerular analysis, adding further complexity to the pursuit of accurate classification and robust segmentation. To bridge these gaps, we present M^3-GloDet, a systematic framework designed to enable thorough evaluation of detection models across a broad continuum of regions, scales, and classes. Within this framework, we evaluate both long-standing benchmark architectures and recently introduced state-of-the-art models that have achieved notable performance, using an experimental design that reflects the diversity of region-of-interest sizes and imaging resolutions encountered in routine digital renal pathology. As the results, we found that intermediate patch sizes offered the best balance between context and efficiency. Additionally, moderate magnifications enhanced generalization by reducing overfitting. Through systematic comparison of these approaches on a multi-class diseased glomerular dataset, our aim is to advance the understanding of model strengths and limitations, and to offer actionable insights for the refinement of automated detection strategies and clinical workflows in the digital pathology domain.
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