arXiv:2510.09326eess.IV2025-10

用多角度投影图直接做肿瘤分割,又快又准还省电。

MIP-Based Tumor Segmentation: A Radiologist-Inspired Approach

  • 直接在投影图上训练分割模型,跳过3D体积处理。
  • 分割效果接近3D方法,训练时间减少超55%、能耗降70%以上。
  • 适合临床快速分析,尤其对高代谢病灶有更好补救机制。

PET/CT是肿瘤检测的金标准,能精准识别原发和转移病灶。放射科医生常先通过旋转多角度最大强度投影(MIP)评估,再结合三维切片确认。该流程耗时,尤其在转移病例中。尽管临床价值高,但自动化分割仍以3D体数据为主,未充分利用MIP。本文提出直接在MIP上训练分割模型的新方法,避免先分割3D再投影,更贴近实际使用场景,显著提升计算效率与训练速度。同时引入新型遮挡修正技术,恢复被高密度结构遮挡的标注区域。基于autoPET 2022挑战赛数据集,评估结果显示:本方法分割性能与3D相当(Dice差异≤1%,豪斯多夫距离改善26.7%),训练时间缩短55.8%-75.8%,每轮能耗降低71.7%-76%,计算量下降两个数量级;分类任务中仅用16张MIP即超越3D表现,训练时间减少10倍以上,每轮能耗下降93.35%。分析表明,48个MIP视角为最佳平衡点,兼顾性能与效率。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

PET/CT imaging is the gold standard for tumor detection, offering high accuracy in identifying local and metastatic lesions. Radiologists often begin assessment with rotational Multi-Angle Maximum Intensity Projections (MIPs) from PET, confirming findings with volumetric slices. This workflow is time-consuming, especially in metastatic cases. Despite their clinical utility, MIPs are underutilized in automated tumor segmentation, where 3D volumetric data remains the norm. We propose an alternative approach that trains segmentation models directly on MIPs, bypassing the need to segment 3D volumes and then project. This better aligns the model with its target domain and yields substantial gains in computational efficiency and training time. We also introduce a novel occlusion correction method that restores MIP annotations occluded by high-intensity structures, improving segmentation. Using the autoPET 2022 Grand Challenge dataset, we evaluate our method against standard 3D pipelines in terms of performance and training/computation efficiency for segmentation and classification, and analyze how MIP count affects segmentation. Our MIP-based approach achieves segmentation performance on par with 3D (<=1% Dice difference, 26.7% better Hausdorff Distance), while reducing training time (convergence time) by 55.8-75.8%, energy per epoch by 71.7-76%, and TFLOPs by two orders of magnitude, highlighting its scalability for clinical use. For classification, using 16 MIPs only as input, we surpass 3D performance while reducing training time by over 10x and energy consumption per epoch by 93.35%. Our analysis of the impact of MIP count on segmentation identified 48 views as optimal, offering the best trade-off between performance and efficiency.

肿瘤分割PET/CT高效模型医学影像

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