arXiv:2512.08216eess.IVcs.CV2025-12中稿 · publication in Tra…被引 1

用少量数据训练的随机森林,提升肺肿瘤分割对异常扫描的检测能力。

Tumor-anchored deep feature random forests for out-of-distribution detection in lung cancer segmentation

  • 基于预训练模型的深层特征,构建锚定肿瘤区域的多区域特征聚合
  • 在近域与远域异常数据上分别达到93%和99%的检测准确率
  • 仅需40张标注数据,适合作为临床部署的安全过滤器

从三维CT扫描中精确分割肺部肿瘤对于自动化治疗规划与疗效评估至关重要。尽管采用大量数据进行自监督预训练,当前主流Transformer骨干网络仍易受分布外(OOD)输入影响,可能产生高置信度错误分割,存在临床应用风险。为此,我们提出RF-Deep——一种轻量级后处理随机森林框架,仅需40张标注扫描(20张分布内、20张分布外)即可训练,利用有限异常样本暴露下的深度特征,提升扫描级OOD检测能力。该方法复用微调后分割模型的层次化特征,将多个锚定于预测肿瘤区域的感兴趣区特征进行聚合,以捕捉异常可能性。我们在2,232个CT体积数据上评估,涵盖近域异常(肺栓塞、新冠阴性)与远域异常(肾癌、健康胰腺)。在挑战性近域数据集上,RF-Deep的AUROC超过93%,优于次优方法4–7个百分点;在远域数据集上达到近乎完美检测(AUROC >99)。该方法在两个盲测验证集(新冠阳性、乳腺癌)中也表现良好,平均AUROC >94。RF-Deep在不同深度与预训练策略的骨干网络间保持稳定性能,证明后处理检测器可作为临床肿瘤分割流水线的安全过滤机制。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Accurate segmentation of lung tumors from 3D computed tomography (CT) scans is essential for automated treatment planning and response assessment. Despite self-supervised pretraining on numerous datasets, state-of-the-art transformer backbones remain susceptible to out-of-distribution (OOD) inputs, often producing confidently incorrect segmentations with potential for risk in clinical deployment. Hence, we introduce RF-Deep, a lightweight post-hoc random forests-based framework that leverages deep features trained with limited outlier exposure, requiring as few as 40 labeled scans (20 in-distribution and 20 OOD), to improve scan-level OOD detection. RF-Deep repurposes the hierarchical features from the pretrained-then-finetuned segmentation backbones, aggregating features from multiple regions-of-interest anchored to predicted tumor regions to capture OOD likelihood. We evaluated RF-Deep on 2,232 CT volumes spanning near-OOD (pulmonary embolism, COVID-19 negative) and far-OOD (kidney cancer, healthy pancreas) datasets. RF-Deep achieved AUROC >~93 on the challenging near-OOD datasets, where it outperformed the next best method by 4--7 percentage points, and produced near-perfect detection (AUROC >~99) on far-OOD datasets. The approach also showed transferability to two blinded validation datasets under the ensemble configuration (COVID-19 positive and breast cancer; AUROC >~94). RF-Deep maintained consistent performance across backbones of different depths and pretraining strategies, demonstrating applicability of post-hoc detectors as a safety filter for clinical deployment of tumor segmentation pipelines.

医学图像异常检测随机森林分割安全

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