arXiv:2511.11276cs.CV2025-11

通过融合序数与关系先验,提升有限标注下体积医学图像分割的结构感知能力。

Coordinative Learning with Ordinal and Relational Priors for Volumetric Medical Image Segmentation

  • 用连续相似性对比替代二值阈值,保留解剖结构的渐变信息。
  • 引入序数目标确保跨患者解剖进展方向一致,学习到符合真实解剖拓扑的特征空间。
  • 在少量标注下达到顶尖分割性能,适合临床医疗图像分析场景。

体积医学图像分割因解剖结构固有特性及标注数据稀缺而面临挑战。现有方法虽通过切片间空间关系对比取得进展,但依赖硬性二值阈值定义正负样本,丢弃了宝贵的解剖相似性连续信息。同时,这些方法忽略了解剖进程的全局方向一致性,导致特征空间失真,无法捕捉患者间共享的典型解剖流形。为此,我们提出协调式序数-关系解剖学习(CORAL),以捕获体积图像中的局部与全局结构。CORAL首先采用对比排序目标,利用连续解剖相似性,确保切片间特征距离与其解剖位置差异成比例;其次引入序数目标,强制学习特征分布与跨患者解剖进展方向的一致性。该协同学习框架生成具有解剖意义的表示,显著提升下游分割任务性能。在有限标注设置下,CORAL在基准数据集上达到当前最优表现,同时学习到具实际解剖结构意义的表示。代码已公开于 https://github.com/haoyiwang25/CORAL。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Volumetric medical image segmentation presents unique challenges due to the inherent anatomical structure and limited availability of annotations. While recent methods have shown promise by contrasting spatial relationships between slices, they rely on hard binary thresholds to define positive and negative samples, thereby discarding valuable continuous information about anatomical similarity. Moreover, these methods overlook the global directional consistency of anatomical progression, resulting in distorted feature spaces that fail to capture the canonical anatomical manifold shared across patients. To address these limitations, we propose Coordinative Ordinal-Relational Anatomical Learning (CORAL) to capture both local and global structure in volumetric images. First, CORAL employs a contrastive ranking objective to leverage continuous anatomical similarity, ensuring relational feature distances between slices are proportional to their anatomical position differences. In addition, CORAL incorporates an ordinal objective to enforce global directional consistency, aligning the learned feature distribution with the canonical anatomical progression across patients. Learning these inter-slice relationships produces anatomically informed representations that benefit the downstream segmentation task. Through this coordinative learning framework, CORAL achieves state-of-the-art performance on benchmark datasets under limited-annotation settings while learning representations with meaningful anatomical structure. Code is available at https://github.com/haoyiwang25/CORAL.

医学图像分割对比学习解剖结构

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