arXiv:2508.19815cs.CVcs.AI2025-08被引 27

用椭圆约束和对称正则化,提升超声胎儿头部分割的准确率。

ERSR: An Ellipse-constrained pseudo-label refinement and symmetric regularization framework for semi-supervised fetal head segmentation in ultrasound images

  • 通过椭圆拟合优化伪标签,增强中心区域、抑制噪声。
  • 在10%标注数据下达到92.05%的Dice分数,优于现有方法。
  • 适合医学图像分割领域,尤其关注小样本与低质量图像场景。

超声图像中胎儿头部的自动分割对产前监测至关重要。然而,由于超声图像质量差且标注数据稀缺,实现鲁棒分割仍具挑战。半监督方法缓解了标注数据不足的问题,但难以应对胎儿头部超声图像的独特特性,导致伪标签不可靠、一致性正则化效果弱。为此,本文提出一种新型半监督框架 ERSR,包含双评分自适应过滤策略、椭圆约束伪标签精炼及基于对称性的多级一致性正则化。双评分策略利用边界一致性和轮廓规则性评估并筛选教师模型输出;椭圆约束伪标签精炼通过最小二乘椭圆拟合,强化拟合椭圆中心区域像素,同时抑制噪声;对称性多级一致性正则化在扰动图像、对称区域及原始预测与伪标签间施加多层级一致性约束,使模型捕捉更鲁棒稳定的形状特征。该方法在两个基准上均达领先性能:在 HC18 数据集上,使用10%和20%标注数据时,Dice 分数分别为 92.05% 和 95.36%;在 PSFH 数据集上,对应分数为 91.68% 和 93.70%。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Automated segmentation of the fetal head in ultrasound images is critical for prenatal monitoring. However, achieving robust segmentation remains challenging due to the poor quality of ultrasound images and the lack of annotated data. Semi-supervised methods alleviate the lack of annotated data but struggle with the unique characteristics of fetal head ultrasound images, making it challenging to generate reliable pseudo-labels and enforce effective consistency regularization constraints. To address this issue, we propose a novel semi-supervised framework, ERSR, for fetal head ultrasound segmentation. Our framework consists of the dual-scoring adaptive filtering strategy, the ellipse-constrained pseudo-label refinement, and the symmetry-based multiple consistency regularization. The dual-scoring adaptive filtering strategy uses boundary consistency and contour regularity criteria to evaluate and filter teacher outputs. The ellipse-constrained pseudo-label refinement refines these filtered outputs by fitting least-squares ellipses, which strengthens pixels near the center of the fitted ellipse and suppresses noise simultaneously. The symmetry-based multiple consistency regularization enforces multi-level consistency across perturbed images, symmetric regions, and between original predictions and pseudo-labels, enabling the model to capture robust and stable shape representations. Our method achieves state-of-the-art performance on two benchmarks. On the HC18 dataset, it reaches Dice scores of 92.05% and 95.36% with 10% and 20% labeled data, respectively. On the PSFH dataset, the scores are 91.68% and 93.70% under the same settings.

医学图像半监督超声分割椭圆约束

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