arXiv:2510.17897eess.IVcs.CV2025-10被引 5

用统计方法保证3D医学影像病灶分割的漏检率不超限,提升临床可靠性。

Conformal Lesion Segmentation for 3D Medical Images

  • 通过校准集计算每例样本的临界阈值,确保漏检率可控。
  • 在6个数据集上验证,测试时漏检率始终低于设定阈值ε。
  • 适合对安全性要求高的医学影像诊断场景使用。

医学图像分割是精准医疗的关键,可精确定位和勾画病灶区域。然而,现有模型通常采用固定阈值(如0.5)区分病灶与背景,无法为漏检率(FNR)等关键指标提供统计保障,限制了其在高风险临床场景中的可靠部署,尤其在3D病灶分割(3D-LS)中更为突出。为此,我们提出风险约束框架Conformal Lesion Segmentation(CLS),通过置信化方法校准数据驱动的阈值,确保测试时的FNR在指定风险水平下低于目标容差ε。CLS首先保留校准集,基于FNR容忍度分析每个样本的阈值设定,引入针对FNR的损失函数,并确定满足目标容差的临界阈值。给定用户设定的风险水平α,再计算校准集中所有临界阈值的近似1−α分位数作为测试时的置信阈值。通过置信化这些临界阈值,CLS将校准集中的统计规律推广至新测试数据,实现严格的FNR约束,同时获得更精确、可靠的分割结果。我们在五个骨干模型上对六个3D-LS数据集进行了验证,证明了CLS在统计严谨性和预测性能上的优越性,并为风险感知分割在临床实践中的部署提供了可行建议。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Medical image segmentation serves as a critical component of precision medicine, enabling accurate localization and delineation of pathological regions, such as lesions. However, existing models empirically apply fixed thresholds (e.g., 0.5) to differentiate lesions from the background, offering no statistical guarantees on key metrics such as the false negative rate (FNR). This lack of principled risk control undermines their reliable deployment in high-stakes clinical applications, especially in challenging scenarios like 3D lesion segmentation (3D-LS). To address this issue, we propose a risk-constrained framework, termed Conformal Lesion Segmentation (CLS), that calibrates data-driven thresholds via conformalization to ensure the test-time FNR remains below a target tolerance $\varepsilon$ under desired risk levels. CLS begins by holding out a calibration set to analyze the threshold setting for each sample under the FNR tolerance, drawing on the idea of conformal prediction. We define an FNR-specific loss function and identify the critical threshold at which each calibration data point just satisfies the target tolerance. Given a user-specified risk level $α$, we then determine the approximate $1-α$ quantile of all the critical thresholds in the calibration set as the test-time confidence threshold. By conformalizing such critical thresholds, CLS generalizes the statistical regularities observed in the calibration set to new test data, providing rigorous FNR constraint while yielding more precise and reliable segmentations. We validate the statistical soundness and predictive performance of CLS on six 3D-LS datasets across five backbone models, and conclude with actionable insights for deploying risk-aware segmentation in clinical practice.

医学图像3D分割风险控制置信推理

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