arXiv:2509.14119cs.CV2025-09被引 12

用生成式AI解决组织切片染色错位问题,提升虚拟染色准确率。

Generative AI for Misalignment-Resistant Virtual Staining to Accelerate Histopathology Workflows

  • 设计级联配准机制,自动纠正生成图像与真实图像的空间错位
  • 在五个数据集上平均提升3.2%~10.1%,错位严重时提升达23.8%
  • 适合需要快速、无损染色的病理诊断场景,降低实验门槛

精准的组织病理学诊断通常需要多张不同染色的组织切片,该过程耗时、费力且对环境不友好。虚拟染色作为一种更快、节约组织、环保的替代方案逐渐兴起,但现有方法因依赖精确配对的成像数据而受限。由于化学染色易导致组织结构变形,同一切片无法重复染色而不损失信息,因此多数数据集为非配对或粗略配对,难以实现像素级监督。为此,本文提出一种鲁棒的虚拟染色框架,包含级联配准机制,有效解决生成结果与真实标签之间的空间错位问题。实验表明,该方法在五个数据集上显著优于当前最优模型,在内部数据集平均提升3.2%,外部数据集提升10.1%;在存在显著错位的数据集中,峰值信噪比提升达23.8%。该方法在多样数据上的强鲁棒性简化了虚拟染色的数据获取流程,为技术发展提供新思路。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Accurate histopathological diagnosis often requires multiple differently stained tissue sections, a process that is time-consuming, labor-intensive, and environmentally taxing due to the use of multiple chemical stains. Recently, virtual staining has emerged as a promising alternative that is faster, tissue-conserving, and environmentally friendly. However, existing virtual staining methods face significant challenges in clinical applications, primarily due to their reliance on well-aligned paired data. Obtaining such data is inherently difficult because chemical staining processes can distort tissue structures, and a single tissue section cannot undergo multiple staining procedures without damage or loss of information. As a result, most available virtual staining datasets are either unpaired or roughly paired, making it difficult for existing methods to achieve accurate pixel-level supervision. To address this challenge, we propose a robust virtual staining framework featuring cascaded registration mechanisms to resolve spatial mismatches between generated outputs and their corresponding ground truth. Experimental results demonstrate that our method significantly outperforms state-of-the-art models across five datasets, achieving an average improvement of 3.2% on internal datasets and 10.1% on external datasets. Moreover, in datasets with substantial misalignment, our approach achieves a remarkable 23.8% improvement in peak signal-to-noise ratio compared to baseline models. The exceptional robustness of the proposed method across diverse datasets simplifies the data acquisition process for virtual staining and offers new insights for advancing its development.

虚拟染色生成式AI病理分析图像配准

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