针对非洲人群脑肿瘤分割,通过增强数据与模型融合提升精度与鲁棒性。
How We Won BraTS-SSA 2025: Brain Tumor Segmentation in the Sub-Saharan African Population Using Segmentation-Aware Data Augmentation and Model Ensembling
- 采用感知分割的离线数据增强扩充样本多样性
- 集成三种模型在500轮训练下实现各区域平衡分割
- 适合关注医疗公平与低资源地区模型泛化研究者
胶质瘤等脑肿瘤因生长模式复杂、侵袭性强及个体间脑结构差异大,诊断与监测困难。现有深度学习模型多基于高资源、同质化数据集训练,难以在欠发达地区部署。本研究对BraTS-Africa数据集实施分割感知的离线数据增强,提升样本数量与多样性以增强泛化能力。构建由MedNeXt、SegMamba和残差编码器U-Net组成的集成模型,发挥各自优势。最佳单模型MedNeXt经1000轮训练,达到0.86的平均病变级Dice分数和0.81的归一化表面距离分数;而500轮训练的集成模型在各肿瘤亚区域表现更均衡。结果表明,先进数据增强与模型集成可有效提升在多样化、代表性不足数据集上的分割性能。代码已公开于:https://github.com/SPARK-Academy-2025/SPARK-2025/tree/main/SPARK2025_BraTs_MODELS/SPARK_NeuroAshanti
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Brain tumors, particularly gliomas, pose significant chall-enges due to their complex growth patterns, infiltrative nature, and the variability in brain structure across individuals, which makes accurate diagnosis and monitoring difficult. Deep learning models have been developed to accurately delineate these tumors. However, most of these models were trained on relatively homogenous high-resource datasets, limiting their robustness when deployed in underserved regions. In this study, we performed segmentation-aware offline data augmentation on the BraTS-Africa dataset to increase the data sample size and diversity to enhance generalization. We further constructed an ensemble of three distinct architectures, MedNeXt, SegMamba, and Residual-Encoder U-Net, to leverage their complementary strengths. Our best-performing model, MedNeXt, was trained on 1000 epochs and achieved the highest average lesion-wise dice and normalized surface distance scores of 0.86 and 0.81 respectively. However, the ensemble model trained for 500 epochs produced the most balanced segmentation performance across the tumour subregions. This work demonstrates that a combination of advanced augmentation and model ensembling can improve segmentation accuracy and robustness on diverse and underrepresented datasets. Code available at: https://github.com/SPARK-Academy-2025/SPARK-2025/tree/main/SPARK2025_BraTs_MODELS/SPARK_NeuroAshanti
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