针对医学图像分割中噪声标注问题,提出像素级自适应加权方法
Not All Pixels Are Equal: Pixel-wise Meta-Learning for Medical Segmentation with Noisy Labels
- 基于动态中心距离机制,为不同像素分配可学习权重
- 在四个数据集上显著提升分割性能,尤其改善边界模糊区域
- 适合标注质量差的医学图像分割任务,对边界敏感场景有效
医学图像分割对临床应用至关重要,但常受噪声标注和解剖边界模糊的影响,限制其在真实场景的应用。现有方法多直接套用为图像分类设计的噪声标签学习技术,忽视了医学分割中像素级差异——空间与解剖结构导致的局部难易程度不一。因此,全局假设或简单置信度度量无法应对这种局部变化,边界模糊问题难以解决。为此,我们提出MetaDCSeg框架,通过动态学习像素级权重,抑制噪声标签影响并保留可靠标注。该方法引入动态中心距离(DCD)机制,显式建模边界不确定性,利用前景、背景与边界中心的加权特征距离,引导模型关注难以分割的边界附近像素。这一策略提升了对结构边界的精确处理能力,显著优于现有方法。在四个基准数据集、多种噪声水平下的实验表明,MetaDCSeg性能领先于当前最优方法。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Medical image segmentation is crucial for clinical applications, but it is frequently disrupted by noisy annotations and ambiguous anatomical boundaries, limiting its application in real-world scenarios. Existing methods often directly adapt noisy label learning techniques designed for instance classification, overlooking the pixel-wise heterogeneity in medical segmentation with its spatially and anatomically varying difficulties. Consequently, global assumptions or simple confidence metrics fail to address these local variations, leaving boundary ambiguities unresolved. To address this issue, we propose MetaDCSeg, a robust framework that dynamically learns optimal pixel-wise weights to suppress the influence of noisy labels while preserving reliable annotations. By explicitly modeling boundary uncertainty through a Dynamic Center Distance (DCD) mechanism, our approach utilizes weighted feature distances for foreground, background, and boundary centers, directing the model's attention toward hard-to-segment pixels near ambiguous boundaries. This strategy enables more precise handling of structural boundaries, which are often overlooked by existing methods, and significantly enhances segmentation performance. Extensive experiments across four benchmark datasets with varying noise levels demonstrate that MetaDCSeg outperforms existing state-of-the-art methods.
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