提出双向对齐框架,提升半监督医学图像分割精度
BARL: Bilateral Alignment in Representation and Label Spaces for Semi-Supervised Volumetric Medical Image Segmentation
- 构建双分支结构,同时对齐特征与标签空间
- 在4个公开数据集和1个私有CBCT数据上超越现有方法
- 适合需要降低标注成本的医疗影像分割研究者
半监督医学图像分割(SSMIS)旨在以极低标注成本达到全监督性能。主流方法依赖标签空间一致性,却忽视了同样重要的特征空间对齐。缺乏对潜在特征的协调,模型难以学习具有判别性和空间一致性的表示。为此,我们提出双空间对齐框架BARL,通过两个协作分支,在特征空间和标签空间同时施加对齐约束。在标签空间,受协同训练与多尺度解码启发,设计双重路径正则化(DPR)与渐进认知偏差修正(PCBC),实现细粒度跨分支一致性并缓解粗到细尺度的误差累积。在特征空间,通过区域级与病灶实例级匹配,显式捕捉医学影像中常见的碎片化、复杂病理模式。在四个公开基准和一个私有CBCT数据集上的大量实验表明,BARL持续优于当前最先进方法。消融实验证明各组件的有效性。代码即将开源。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Semi-supervised medical image segmentation (SSMIS) seeks to match fully supervised performance while sharply reducing annotation cost. Mainstream SSMIS methods rely on \emph{label-space consistency}, yet they overlook the equally critical \emph{representation-space alignment}. Without harmonizing latent features, models struggle to learn representations that are both discriminative and spatially coherent. To this end, we introduce \textbf{Bilateral Alignment in Representation and Label spaces (BARL)}, a unified framework that couples two collaborative branches and enforces alignment in both spaces. For label-space alignment, inspired by co-training and multi-scale decoding, we devise \textbf{Dual-Path Regularization (DPR)} and \textbf{Progressively Cognitive Bias Correction (PCBC)} to impose fine-grained cross-branch consistency while mitigating error accumulation from coarse to fine scales. For representation-space alignment, we conduct region-level and lesion-instance matching between branches, explicitly capturing the fragmented, complex pathological patterns common in medical imagery. Extensive experiments on four public benchmarks and a proprietary CBCT dataset demonstrate that BARL consistently surpasses state-of-the-art SSMIS methods. Ablative studies further validate the contribution of each component. Code will be released soon.
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