轻量模型+手工特征融合,提升低资源环境脑肿瘤诊断准确率
AI-Enhanced Virtual Biopsies for Brain Tumor Diagnosis in Low Resource Settings
- 用轻量CNN与手工特征分路处理,后期融合提升诊断性能
- 融合模型在公开数据集上表现优于单一模型,且抗噪声和低分辨率干扰
- 提供可视化解释,适合临床辅助决策而非替代医生
在缺乏专业神经放射学解读、高端MRI设备和侵入性活检的低资源临床环境中,及时诊断脑肿瘤仍具挑战。尽管深度学习在脑肿瘤分析中表现优异,但实际应用受限于计算需求、不同扫描仪间的数据分布偏移以及可解释性不足。本文提出一种四分类虚拟活检流程,针对2D脑部MRI图像,采用轻量级卷积神经网络(CNN)与互补的影像组学风格手工特征。基于MobileNetV2的CNN负责分类,同时一个可解释的影像组学分支提取8个特征,涵盖病灶形状、灰度统计及灰度共生矩阵(GLCM)纹理描述符。通过晚期融合策略将CNN嵌入向量与影像组学特征拼接,再使用随机森林分类器进行训练。利用Grad-CAM可视化与影像组学特征重要性分析实现可解释性。在公开的Kaggle脑肿瘤MRI数据集上的实验表明,融合模型在验证集上表现优于单分支基线模型;在低分辨率和加噪条件下的鲁棒性测试凸显其对低资源成像环境的敏感性。系统定位为临床辅助决策工具,而非替代临床诊断或组织病理学。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Timely brain tumor diagnosis remains challenging in low-resource clinical environments where expert neuroradiology interpretation, high-end MRI hardware, and invasive biopsy procedures may be limited. Although deep learning has achieved strong performance in brain tumor analysis, real-world adoption is constrained by computational demands, dataset shift across scanners, and limited interpretability. This paper presents a prototype virtual biopsy pipeline for four-class classification of 2D brain MRI images using a lightweight convolutional neural network (CNN) and complementary radiomics-style handcrafted features. A MobileNetV2-based CNN is trained for classification, while an interpretable radiomics branch extracts eight features capturing lesion shape, intensity statistics, and gray-level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM) texture descriptors. A late fusion strategy concatenates CNN embeddings with radiomics features and trains a RandomForest classifier on the fused representation. Explainability is provided via Grad-CAM visualizations and radiomics feature importance analysis. Experiments on a public Kaggle brain tumor MRI dataset show improved validation performance for fusion relative to single-branch baselines, while robustness tests under reduced resolution and additive noise highlight sensitivity relevant to low-resource imaging conditions. The system is framed as decision support and not a substitute for clinical diagnosis or histopathology.
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