arXiv:2510.27646cs.CVcs.AI2025-10

用合成血管形状数据提升少样本分割能力,让模型更懂结构而非纹理。

VessShape: Few-shot 2D blood vessel segmentation by leveraging shape priors from synthetic images

  • 通过生成带管状分支结构的合成图像,引导模型关注形状而非纹理。
  • 仅需4~10个样本即可在真实数据上实现良好分割,零样本也能泛化到新域。
  • 适合医疗图像少样本场景,尤其对跨模态血管分割有显著帮助。

血管语义分割在医学图像分析中至关重要,但常受限于大规模标注数据稀缺及模型在不同成像模态间的泛化能力不足。卷积神经网络(CNN)倾向于学习纹理特征,导致在视觉特性不同的新领域表现不佳。我们提出假设:利用血管的几何先验(如管状与分叉结构)可提升模型鲁棒性与数据效率。为此,我们设计了VessShape方法,生成大规模2D合成数据集,包含程序化生成的管状几何结构与多样化前景/背景纹理,促使模型学习形状线索而非纹理。实验表明,基于VessShape预训练的模型在两个不同领域的实际数据集上,仅需4至10个样本微调即达到优异的少样本分割性能;此外,该模型还具备显著的零样本能力,在未见领域无需特定训练即可有效分割血管。结果表明,引入强形状偏置预训练是克服数据稀缺、提升血管分割泛化能力的有效策略。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Semantic segmentation of blood vessels is an important task in medical image analysis, but its progress is often hindered by the scarcity of large annotated datasets and the poor generalization of models across different imaging modalities. A key aspect is the tendency of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to learn texture-based features, which limits their performance when applied to new domains with different visual characteristics. We hypothesize that leveraging geometric priors of vessel shapes, such as their tubular and branching nature, can lead to more robust and data-efficient models. To investigate this, we introduce VessShape, a methodology for generating large-scale 2D synthetic datasets designed to instill a shape bias in segmentation models. VessShape images contain procedurally generated tubular geometries combined with a wide variety of foreground and background textures, encouraging models to learn shape cues rather than textures. We demonstrate that a model pre-trained on VessShape images achieves strong few-shot segmentation performance on two real-world datasets from different domains, requiring only four to ten samples for fine-tuning. Furthermore, the model exhibits notable zero-shot capabilities, effectively segmenting vessels in unseen domains without any target-specific training. Our results indicate that pre-training with a strong shape bias can be an effective strategy to overcome data scarcity and improve model generalization in blood vessel segmentation.

血管分割少样本学习形状先验合成数据

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