arXiv:2601.11645cs.CV2026-01

针对神经元细胞分割难题,提出多尺度注意力与混合损失联合优化框架。

IMSAHLO: Integrating Multi-Scale Attention and Hybrid Loss Optimization Framework for Robust Neuronal Brain Cell Segmentation

  • 采用多尺度密集块与分层注意力,精准捕捉不同密度下的细胞形态。
  • 混合损失函数有效缓解类别不平衡,边界分割准确率提升至99.5%。
  • 适用于复杂生物图像,适合神经科学与医学影像分析研究者参考。

荧光显微镜下神经元细胞的精确分割是计算神经科学定量分析的基础任务,但受密集与稀疏分布共存、形态重叠复杂及严重类别不平衡等问题制约,传统深度学习模型难以保持细粒度拓扑结构或准确勾勒边界。为此,本文提出新型深度学习框架 IMSAHLO(集成多尺度注意力与混合损失优化),核心包括多尺度密集块(MSDBs)以捕获不同感受野特征,有效应对细胞密度变化;分层注意力(HA)机制自适应聚焦显著形态特征,保留感兴趣区域边界细节。此外,设计新颖的混合损失函数,融合Tversky与焦点损失以缓解类别不平衡,结合拓扑感知中心线骰子(clDice)损失和轮廓加权边界损失,确保拓扑连贯性与相邻细胞精确分离。在公开的荧光神经元细胞(FNC)数据集上大规模实验表明,该框架优于现有先进模型,在困难的密集与稀疏场景下分别取得81.4%精度、82.7%宏平均F1、83.3%微平均F1和99.5%平衡准确率。消融实验证明多尺度注意力与混合损失项具有协同增益作用。本工作为可泛化的生物医学图像分割模型奠定基础,推动人工智能辅助分析向高通量神经生物学流程发展。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Accurate segmentation of neuronal cells in fluorescence microscopy is a fundamental task for quantitative analysis in computational neuroscience. However, it is significantly impeded by challenges such as the coexistence of densely packed and sparsely distributed cells, complex overlapping morphologies, and severe class imbalance. Conventional deep learning models often fail to preserve fine topological details or accurately delineate boundaries under these conditions. To address these limitations, we propose a novel deep learning framework, IMSAHLO (Integrating Multi-Scale Attention and Hybrid Loss Optimization), for robust and adaptive neuronal segmentation. The core of our model features Multi-Scale Dense Blocks (MSDBs) to capture features at various receptive fields, effectively handling variations in cell density, and a Hierarchical Attention (HA) mechanism that adaptively focuses on salient morphological features to preserve Region of Interest (ROI) boundary details. Furthermore, we introduce a novel hybrid loss function synergistically combining Tversky and Focal loss to combat class imbalance, alongside a topology-aware Centerline Dice (clDice) loss and a Contour-Weighted Boundary loss to ensure topological continuity and precise separation of adjacent cells. Large-scale experiments on the public Fluorescent Neuronal Cells (FNC) dataset demonstrate that our framework outperforms state-of-the-art architectures, achieving precision of 81.4%, macro F1 score of 82.7%, micro F1 score of 83.3%, and balanced accuracy of 99.5% on difficult dense and sparse cases. Ablation studies validate the synergistic benefits of multi-scale attention and hybrid loss terms. This work establishes a foundation for generalizable segmentation models applicable to a wide range of biomedical imaging modalities, pushing AI-assisted analysis toward high-throughput neurobiological pipelines.

细胞分割多尺度注意混合损失生物成像

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