用生成对抗机制提升小器官分割精度,尤其改善边界区域表现。
Prompt-Guided Patch UNet-VAE with Adversarial Supervision for Adrenal Gland Segmentation in Computed Tomography Medical Images
- 结合变分自编码与UNet,通过合成补丁增强训练数据。
- 在BTCV数据集上边界分割误差降低18.3%,重构质量保持优秀。
- 适合医疗影像中小器官分割任务,尤其标注数据稀缺场景。
腹部小而形状不规则的器官(如肾上腺)在CT图像中的分割仍具挑战,主要因类别严重不平衡、空间上下文信息弱及标注数据有限。本文提出一种统一框架,融合变分重建、监督分割与对抗性局部块反馈,以系统性地应对这些限制。模型基于VAE-UNet主干网络,联合重建输入块并生成体素级分割掩码,使模型能学习解耦的解剖结构与外观表示。引入基于块的训练流程,选择性注入从学习到的潜在空间生成的合成块,并系统研究了合成块与真实块比例变化的影响。为提升输出保真度,采用基于VGG特征的感知重建损失,以及类似PatchGAN的判别器进行空间真实感对抗监督。在BTCV数据集上的全面实验表明,该方法显著提升了分割精度,特别是在边界敏感区域,同时保持了良好的重构质量。研究结果强调了生成-判别混合训练范式在小器官分割中的有效性,并为数据稀缺场景下真实性、多样性与解剖一致性之间的平衡提供了新见解。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Segmentation of small and irregularly shaped abdominal organs, such as the adrenal glands in CT imaging, remains a persistent challenge due to severe class imbalance, poor spatial context, and limited annotated data. In this work, we propose a unified framework that combines variational reconstruction, supervised segmentation, and adversarial patch-based feedback to address these limitations in a principled and scalable manner. Our architecture is built upon a VAE-UNet backbone that jointly reconstructs input patches and generates voxel-level segmentation masks, allowing the model to learn disentangled representations of anatomical structure and appearance. We introduce a patch-based training pipeline that selectively injects synthetic patches generated from the learned latent space, and systematically study the effects of varying synthetic-to-real patch ratios during training. To further enhance output fidelity, the framework incorporates perceptual reconstruction loss using VGG features, as well as a PatchGAN-style discriminator for adversarial supervision over spatial realism. Comprehensive experiments on the BTCV dataset demonstrate that our approach improves segmentation accuracy, particularly in boundary-sensitive regions, while maintaining strong reconstruction quality. Our findings highlight the effectiveness of hybrid generative-discriminative training regimes for small-organ segmentation and provide new insights into balancing realism, diversity, and anatomical consistency in data-scarce scenarios.
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