用健康脑部MRI生成带标注的肿瘤图像,解决医疗数据稀缺问题
From Healthy Scans to Annotated Tumors: A Tumor Fabrication Framework for 3D Brain MRI Synthesis
- 两阶段自动合成:先粗略生成肿瘤,再用生成模型精细化
- 仅需少量真实标注数据和健康扫描,就能生成大量配对数据
- 在数据极少时显著提升肿瘤分割效果,适合临床AI训练
标注的脑部MRI肿瘤数据稀缺,严重制约自动化肿瘤分割。现有数据合成方法存在缺陷:人工建模耗时且需专业知识;深度生成模型虽可扩充数据,但通常需要大量成对训练样本,难以在数据有限的临床环境中应用。本文提出一种名为肿瘤制造(Tumor Fabrication, TF)的新型无配对3D脑肿瘤合成框架,包含粗略肿瘤生成与生成模型驱动的精炼两个阶段。该框架完全自动化,仅依赖健康图像扫描和少量真实标注数据,即可合成大规模配对的合成数据,用于下游监督分割训练。实验表明,使用这些合成图像-标签对进行数据增强,可在低数据条件下显著提升肿瘤分割性能,为医学图像增补提供可扩展、可靠的解决方案,有效应对临床AI应用中的数据匮乏挑战。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
The scarcity of annotated Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) tumor data presents a major obstacle to accurate and automated tumor segmentation. While existing data synthesis methods offer promising solutions, they often suffer from key limitations: manual modeling is labor intensive and requires expert knowledge. Deep generative models may be used to augment data and annotation, but they typically demand large amounts of training pairs in the first place, which is impractical in data limited clinical settings. In this work, we propose Tumor Fabrication (TF), a novel two-stage framework for unpaired 3D brain tumor synthesis. The framework comprises a coarse tumor synthesis process followed by a refinement process powered by a generative model. TF is fully automated and leverages only healthy image scans along with a limited amount of real annotated data to synthesize large volumes of paired synthetic data for enriching downstream supervised segmentation training. We demonstrate that our synthetic image-label pairs used as data enrichment can significantly improve performance on downstream tumor segmentation tasks in low-data regimes, offering a scalable and reliable solution for medical image enrichment and addressing critical challenges in data scarcity for clinical AI applications.
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