arXiv:2510.08949eess.IVcs.CV2025-10被引 1

用不确定性引导注意力,提升医学图像分割的准确与可信度。

Progressive Uncertainty-Guided Evidential U-KAN for Trustworthy Medical Image Segmentation

  • 通过渐进式不确定性引导注意力,聚焦难分边界区域特征学习。
  • 在4个数据集上分割精度与可靠性均优于现有方法。
  • 适合追求高可信医学图像分割的临床研究与工程应用。

可信医学图像分割旨在为临床决策提供准确可靠的分割结果。现有方法多采用证据深度学习(EDL)范式,因其计算高效且理论稳健。然而,这些方法常忽略利用蕴含注意力线索的不确定性图来优化模糊边界分割。为此,我们提出渐进式证据不确定性引导注意力(PEUA)机制,通过不确定性图逐步精炼注意力,同时采用低秩学习去噪注意力权重,增强对困难区域的特征学习。此外,传统EDL方法通过KL正则化无差别抑制错误类别证据,损害了模糊区域的不确定性评估,进而扭曲注意力引导。因此,我们引入语义保持的证据学习(SAEL)策略,结合语义平滑证据生成器与保真度增强正则项,以保留关键语义信息。最终,将PEUA与SAEL嵌入当前最优的U-KAN模型,提出可信赖医学图像分割新方案——证据型U-KAN(Evidential U-KAN)。在4个数据集上的大量实验表明,该方法在准确性和可靠性上均显著优于对比方法。代码已公开于github。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Trustworthy medical image segmentation aims at deliver accurate and reliable results for clinical decision-making. Most existing methods adopt the evidence deep learning (EDL) paradigm due to its computational efficiency and theoretical robustness. However, the EDL-based methods often neglect leveraging uncertainty maps rich in attention cues to refine ambiguous boundary segmentation. To address this, we propose a progressive evidence uncertainty guided attention (PEUA) mechanism to guide the model to focus on the feature representation learning of hard regions. Unlike conventional approaches, PEUA progressively refines attention using uncertainty maps while employing low-rank learning to denoise attention weights, enhancing feature learning for challenging regions. Concurrently, standard EDL methods suppress evidence of incorrect class indiscriminately via Kullback-Leibler (KL) regularization, impairing the uncertainty assessment in ambiguous areas and consequently distorts the corresponding attention guidance. We thus introduce a semantic-preserving evidence learning (SAEL) strategy, integrating a semantic-smooth evidence generator and a fidelity-enhancing regularization term to retain critical semantics. Finally, by embedding PEUA and SAEL with the state-of-the-art U-KAN, we proposes Evidential U-KAN, a novel solution for trustworthy medical image segmentation. Extensive experiments on 4 datasets demonstrate superior accuracy and reliability over the competing methods. The code is available at \href{https://anonymous.4open.science/r/Evidence-U-KAN-BBE8}{github}.

医学图像分割不确定性注意力

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