arXiv:2509.09469cs.CVcs.AI2025-09

针对非洲医疗影像数据少,设计轻量模型实现高效脑瘤分割。

Resource-Efficient Glioma Segmentation on Sub-Saharan MRI

  • 用3D注意力UNet+残差块,迁移学习提升小样本表现。
  • 在95例非洲数据上达0.76~0.85的分割精度,性能稳定。
  • 模型仅90MB,单体积推理不到1分钟,适合基层医院部署。

胶质瘤是最常见的原发性脑肿瘤,其准确分割对诊断、治疗规划和长期监测至关重要。然而,撒哈拉以南非洲(SSA)高质量标注影像数据稀缺,制约了先进分割模型的临床应用。本研究提出一种鲁棒且计算高效的深度学习框架,专为资源受限环境设计。采用3D注意力UNet架构,引入残差块,并通过BraTS 2021预训练权重进行迁移学习。模型在BraTS-Africa数据集(95例MRI)上评估,尽管数据质量和数量有限,仍取得0.76(增强肿瘤)、0.80(坏死及非增强肿瘤核心)、0.85(周围非功能半球)的Dice分数。结果表明该模型具备良好泛化能力,可支持低资源环境下的临床决策。模型大小约90MB,消费级硬件上每体积推理时间低于1分钟,极具实际部署价值。本工作推动全球医疗AI公平性,为欠发达地区提供高性能、可及的医学影像解决方案。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Gliomas are the most prevalent type of primary brain tumors, and their accurate segmentation from MRI is critical for diagnosis, treatment planning, and longitudinal monitoring. However, the scarcity of high-quality annotated imaging data in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) poses a significant challenge for deploying advanced segmentation models in clinical workflows. This study introduces a robust and computationally efficient deep learning framework tailored for resource-constrained settings. We leveraged a 3D Attention UNet architecture augmented with residual blocks and enhanced through transfer learning from pre-trained weights on the BraTS 2021 dataset. Our model was evaluated on 95 MRI cases from the BraTS-Africa dataset, a benchmark for glioma segmentation in SSA MRI data. Despite the limited data quality and quantity, our approach achieved Dice scores of 0.76 for the Enhancing Tumor (ET), 0.80 for Necrotic and Non-Enhancing Tumor Core (NETC), and 0.85 for Surrounding Non-Functional Hemisphere (SNFH). These results demonstrate the generalizability of the proposed model and its potential to support clinical decision making in low-resource settings. The compact architecture, approximately 90 MB, and sub-minute per-volume inference time on consumer-grade hardware further underscore its practicality for deployment in SSA health systems. This work contributes toward closing the gap in equitable AI for global health by empowering underserved regions with high-performing and accessible medical imaging solutions.

脑瘤分割轻量化模型非洲医疗AI医疗

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