arXiv:2512.09779eess.IVcs.AI2025-12

用病理引导合成数据,实现仅用少量标注样例的精准心脏核磁分割。

PathCo-LatticE: Pathology-Constrained Lattice-Of Experts Framework for Fully-supervised Few-Shot Cardiac MRI Segmentation

  • 用生成模型构建病理连续轨迹,合成带标签的心脏影像数据。
  • 在零样本测试中,7个标注样本即达4.2%-11%的性能提升。
  • 适合需要跨设备、跨病理泛化的医学图像分割场景。

少样本学习缓解心脏核磁共振分割中的数据稀缺问题,但传统方法依赖对领域偏移敏感的半监督技术,限制了零样本泛化能力。本文提出全监督少样本框架PathCo-LatticE,以病理引导的合成监督替代真实未标注数据。首先,虚拟患者引擎通过生成建模,从稀疏临床锚点出发,合成生理上合理的全标注3D数据集;其次,自强化交错验证(SIV)提供无信息泄露的在线评估机制,使用逐步挑战性的合成样本进行模型评测,无需真实验证数据;最后,动态病理感知专家网格(LoE)组织多个专用网络,根据输入激活最相关专家,实现无需目标域微调的鲁棒零样本泛化。我们在严格分布外(OOD)设置下评估:所有锚点与严重程度统计均来自单源数据集ACDC,零样本测试在多中心、多厂商的M&Ms数据集上进行。PathCo-LatticE在四个先进少样本方法上提升4.2%-11% Dice分数,仅需7个标注锚点即可达到显著性能,19个锚点时接近全监督表现(差距<1% Dice)。该方法在四家厂商间表现一致,且能泛化至未见病灶类型。[代码将公开]。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Few-shot learning (FSL) mitigates data scarcity in cardiac MRI segmentation but typically relies on semi-supervised techniques sensitive to domain shifts and validation bias, restricting zero-shot generalizability. We propose PathCo-LatticE, a fully supervised FSL framework that replaces unlabeled data with pathology-guided synthetic supervision. First, our Virtual Patient Engine models continuous latent disease trajectories from sparse clinical anchors, using generative modeling to synthesize physiologically plausible, fully labeled 3D cohorts. Second, Self-Reinforcing Interleaved Validation (SIV) provides a leakage-free protocol that evaluates models online with progressively challenging synthetic samples, eliminating the need for real validation data. Finally, a dynamic Lattice-of-Experts (LoE) organizes specialized networks within a pathology-aware topology and activates the most relevant experts per input, enabling robust zero-shot generalization to unseen data without target-domain fine-tuning. We evaluated PathCo-LatticE in a strict out-of-distribution (OOD) setting, deriving all anchors and severity statistics from a single-source domain (ACDC) and performing zero-shot testing on the multi-center, multi-vendor M&Ms dataset. PathCo-LatticE outperforms four state-of-the-art FSL methods by 4.2-11% Dice starting from only 7 labeled anchors, and approaches fully supervised performance (within 1% Dice) with only 19 labeled anchors. The method shows superior harmonization across four vendors and generalization to unseen pathologies. [Code will be made publicly available].

少样本学习医学影像生成模型分割

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