融合数学模型与U-Net,提升眼底图像病变分割精度。
Hybrid Approach for Enhancing Lesion Segmentation in Fundus Images
- 结合聚类算法与U-Net,兼顾精度与数据效率
- 在1024×1024图像上达到89.7%的Dice系数
- 适合眼科医生辅助诊断,减少对专家标注依赖
脉络膜痣是眼部常见良性色素性病变,有极小概率演变为黑色素瘤。早期发现对提高生存率至关重要,但误诊或延迟诊断可能导致不良后果。尽管人工智能图像分析取得进展,但在彩色眼底图像中诊断脉络膜痣仍具挑战,尤其对非专科医生而言。现有数据集常存在分辨率低、标注不一致的问题,限制了分割模型效果。本文针对眼底病变精准分割这一关键步骤,提出一种新方法:融合数学/聚类分割模型与U-Net的洞察,结合两者优势。该混合模型显著提升精度,降低对大规模标注数据的需求,在高分辨率眼底图像上表现优异。在1024×1024图像上,模型获得89.7%的Dice系数和80.01%的IoU,优于Attention U-Net(51.3%和34.2%)。且在外部数据集上表现出更强泛化能力。本工作是构建脉络膜痣诊断决策支持系统的一部分,有望实现自动化病变标注,提升诊断与监测的效率与准确性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Choroidal nevi are common benign pigmented lesions in the eye, with a small risk of transforming into melanoma. Early detection is critical to improving survival rates, but misdiagnosis or delayed diagnosis can lead to poor outcomes. Despite advancements in AI-based image analysis, diagnosing choroidal nevi in colour fundus images remains challenging, particularly for clinicians without specialized expertise. Existing datasets often suffer from low resolution and inconsistent labelling, limiting the effectiveness of segmentation models. This paper addresses the challenge of achieving precise segmentation of fundus lesions, a critical step toward developing robust diagnostic tools. While deep learning models like U-Net have demonstrated effectiveness, their accuracy heavily depends on the quality and quantity of annotated data. Previous mathematical/clustering segmentation methods, though accurate, required extensive human input, making them impractical for medical applications. This paper proposes a novel approach that combines mathematical/clustering segmentation models with insights from U-Net, leveraging the strengths of both methods. This hybrid model improves accuracy, reduces the need for large-scale training data, and achieves significant performance gains on high-resolution fundus images. The proposed model achieves a Dice coefficient of 89.7% and an IoU of 80.01% on 1024*1024 fundus images, outperforming the Attention U-Net model, which achieved 51.3% and 34.2%, respectively. It also demonstrated better generalizability on external datasets. This work forms a part of a broader effort to develop a decision support system for choroidal nevus diagnosis, with potential applications in automated lesion annotation to enhance the speed and accuracy of diagnosis and monitoring.
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