arXiv:2511.13883cs.CV2025-11被引 1

医学影像分割的性能随数据增长呈几何受限规律,拓扑增强可提升数据效率。

Revisiting Data Scaling in Medical Image Segmentation via Topology-Aware Augmentation

  • 用拓扑感知的变形增强代替随机形变,提升数据利用效率。
  • 在低数据量下性能提升明显,但存在任务依赖的误差下限。
  • 适用于追求高效训练的医学图像分割研究者。

本研究系统考察了15个解剖结构分割任务在四种成像模态下的数据缩放行为。发现医学影像分割在预测误差与数据集规模间呈现结构稳定的幂律关系,低数据量时性能快速提升;但相比通用视觉或语言任务,其性能更早饱和,且随数据增加仍存在持续的误差下限,表明缩放受内在解剖结构制约。为探究几何约束机制,我们对比了随机弹性形变与基于配准引导及生成形变场建模的拓扑感知增强策略。尽管整体缩放规律保持不变,拓扑感知增强系统性降低有效误差尺度,并以任务依赖方式重塑收敛行为,提升样本效率而不改变基本缩放原则。结果表明,医学影像分割遵循几何受限缩放定律,而解剖学基础的增强通过扩大有效拓扑覆盖范围来提升数据效率。该工作为医学影像分割中的数据高效学习提供了实证依据。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Understanding how segmentation performance scales with training data is fundamental for developing data-efficient medical AI systems. In this study, we systematically revisit data scaling behavior across 15 anatomical segmentation tasks spanning four imaging modalities. We observe that medical segmentation follows a structurally stable power-law-like relationship between predictive error and dataset size, characterized by rapid improvement in low-data regimes. However, unlike classical large-scale vision or language tasks, segmentation exhibits earlier and task-dependent performance saturation, with a persistent error floor emerging even as data increases. This behavior suggests that segmentation scaling is not purely data-constrained but is influenced by intrinsic geometric and anatomical structure. To further probe this geometry-constrained regime, we investigate whether topology-aware deformation-based augmentation can modify effective scaling dynamics. We compare random elastic deformation with registration-guided and generative deformation-field modeling strategies. While the overall functional form of the scaling law remains preserved, topology-aware augmentation systematically lowers the effective error scale and reshapes convergence behavior in a task-dependent manner, leading to improved sample efficiency without overturning the underlying scaling principle. These findings indicate that medical segmentation obeys a geometry-limited scaling law, and that anatomically grounded augmentation enhances data efficiency by expanding effective topological coverage rather than altering the fundamental scaling structure. Our results provide a principled empirical perspective on data-efficient learning in medical image segmentation. The code will be released after acceptance.

医学影像分割数据效率拓扑增强

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