arXiv:2508.20475cs.CVcs.LG2025-08

用病理先验生成合成数据,提升胎儿胼胝体分割精度。

Enhancing Corpus Callosum Segmentation in Fetal MRI via Pathology-Informed Domain Randomization

  • 将胼胝体发育不全的解剖特征融入数据增强,无需病灶标注
  • 对健康与病变胎儿的胼胝体长度估计误差分别降至0.80毫米和0.7毫米
  • 适合罕见脑畸形研究,尤其适用于数据稀缺场景

准确的胎儿脑部分割对提取生物标志物和评估神经发育至关重要,尤其在胼胝体发育不全(CCD)等疾病中,其解剖结构会显著改变。然而,由于CCD病例稀少,标注数据匮乏,严重限制了深度学习模型的泛化能力。为此,我们提出一种基于病理先验的领域随机化策略,将CCD的典型表现嵌入合成数据生成流程中。仅从健康数据出发模拟多种脑部异常,即可实现无需病理标注的鲁棒分割。我们在包含248例健康胎儿、26例CCD及47例其他脑部病变的队列上验证该方法,显著提升了对CCD病例的分割效果,同时保持对健康胎儿及其他病变者的性能。从分割结果中提取出胼胝体长度(LCC)和体积等临床相关标志物,并成功区分不同亚型。该方法使健康胎儿的LCC估计误差从1.89毫米降至0.80毫米,CCD病例则从10.9毫米降至0.7毫米。此外,分割结果在拓扑一致性上优于现有真实标签,更利于形状分析。研究表明,将特定解剖先验引入合成数据流程,可有效缓解数据稀缺问题,提升对罕见但重要的先天畸形分析能力。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Accurate fetal brain segmentation is crucial for extracting biomarkers and assessing neurodevelopment, especially in conditions such as corpus callosum dysgenesis (CCD), which can induce drastic anatomical changes. However, the rarity of CCD severely limits annotated data, hindering the generalization of deep learning models. To address this, we propose a pathology-informed domain randomization strategy that embeds prior knowledge of CCD manifestations into a synthetic data generation pipeline. By simulating diverse brain alterations from healthy data alone, our approach enables robust segmentation without requiring pathological annotations. We validate our method on a cohort comprising 248 healthy fetuses, 26 with CCD, and 47 with other brain pathologies, achieving substantial improvements on CCD cases while maintaining performance on both healthy fetuses and those with other pathologies. From the predicted segmentations, we derive clinically relevant biomarkers, such as corpus callosum length (LCC) and volume, and show their utility in distinguishing CCD subtypes. Our pathology-informed augmentation reduces the LCC estimation error from 1.89 mm to 0.80 mm in healthy cases and from 10.9 mm to 0.7 mm in CCD cases. Beyond these quantitative gains, our approach yields segmentations with improved topological consistency relative to available ground truth, enabling more reliable shape-based analyses. Overall, this work demonstrates that incorporating domain-specific anatomical priors into synthetic data pipelines can effectively mitigate data scarcity and enhance analysis of rare but clinically significant malformations.

医学图像分割合成数据胎儿MRI

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