arXiv:2601.02806cs.CV2026-01被引 2

解决染色图像配准不准问题,提升虚拟染色临床可用性

Topology-aware Pathological Consistency Matching for Weakly-Paired IHC Virtual Staining

  • 引入拓扑感知一致性匹配机制,应对图像空间错位
  • 在多个任务中优于现有方法,生成图像病理一致性更高
  • 适合病理图像分析、数字病理学研究者参考

免疫组化(IHC)染色对癌症诊断至关重要,但操作复杂、耗时且成本高,限制了其广泛应用。虚拟染色可将常规H&E染色图像转换为IHC图像,降低成本。然而,由于使用相邻切片作为真实标签,常出现弱配对数据,存在空间错位和局部形变,阻碍监督学习效果。为此,我们提出一种拓扑感知的H&E到IHC虚拟染色框架。设计拓扑感知一致性匹配(TACM)机制,通过图对比学习与拓扑扰动,学习鲁棒的匹配模式,保证结构一致性;提出拓扑约束病理匹配(TCPM)机制,基于节点重要性对齐病理阳性区域,增强病理一致性。在两个基准数据集上的四类染色任务中,实验结果表明该方法优于当前最优模型,在生成质量与临床相关性方面均表现更优。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Immunohistochemical (IHC) staining provides crucial molecular characterization of tissue samples and plays an indispensable role in the clinical examination and diagnosis of cancers. However, compared with the commonly used Hematoxylin and Eosin (H&E) staining, IHC staining involves complex procedures and is both time-consuming and expensive, which limits its widespread clinical use. Virtual staining converts H&E images to IHC images, offering a cost-effective alternative to clinical IHC staining. Nevertheless, using adjacent slides as ground truth often results in weakly-paired data with spatial misalignment and local deformations, hindering effective supervised learning. To address these challenges, we propose a novel topology-aware framework for H&E-to-IHC virtual staining. Specifically, we introduce a Topology-aware Consistency Matching (TACM) mechanism that employs graph contrastive learning and topological perturbations to learn robust matching patterns despite spatial misalignments, ensuring structural consistency. Furthermore, we propose a Topology-constrained Pathological Matching (TCPM) mechanism that aligns pathological positive regions based on node importance to enhance pathological consistency. Extensive experiments on two benchmarks across four staining tasks demonstrate that our method outperforms state-of-the-art approaches, achieving superior generation quality with higher clinical relevance.

虚拟染色病理图像图像配准拓扑学习

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