arXiv:2601.13385cs.CVcs.AI2026-01被引 2

提出器官感知注意力机制,提升胸部和腹部CT的分诊分类准确率。

Organ-Aware Attention Improves CT Triage and Classification

  • 设计器官掩码注意力与器官标量融合,定位病变并融合影像特征。
  • 在胸部CT上达到0.86的AUROC,腹部30种病灶达0.85。
  • 适用于医学影像分诊,尤其适合需精准定位的临床场景。

计算机断层扫描(CT)等高通量医学影像亟需高效分诊与分类以改善患者护理并缓解放射科医生疲劳。研究级CT分诊需具备校准预测与局部证据;然而,现成的视觉语言模型(VLM)在三维解剖结构、扫描协议变化及噪声报告监督下表现不佳。本研究使用两个最大的公开胸部CT数据集:CT-RATE和RADCHEST-CT(独立外部测试集)。精心调优的监督基线(采用全局平均池化头)创下新的监督性能基准,超越所有已报告的线性探测VLM。在此基础上,我们提出ORACLE-CT——一种编码器无关的器官感知头,结合器官掩码注意力(基于器官掩码的区域池化,生成空间证据)与器官标量融合(轻量级融合归一化体积与平均HU线索)。在胸部设定下,ORACLE-CT掩码注意力模型在CT-RATE上取得0.86的AUROC;在腹部设定下,针对MERLIN数据集(30种发现),监督基线超过复现的零样本VLM基线,加入掩码注意力与标量融合后进一步提升至0.85的AUROC。这些结果在统一评估协议下实现了胸腹CT的最先进监督分类性能。源代码已开源:https://github.com/lavsendahal/oracle-ct。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

There is an urgent need for triage and classification of high-volume medical imaging modalities such as computed tomography (CT), which can improve patient care and mitigate radiologist burnout. Study-level CT triage requires calibrated predictions with localized evidence; however, off-the-shelf Vision Language Models (VLM) struggle with 3D anatomy, protocol shifts, and noisy report supervision. This study used the two largest publicly available chest CT datasets: CT-RATE and RADCHEST-CT (held-out external test set). Our carefully tuned supervised baseline (instantiated as a simple Global Average Pooling head) establishes a new supervised state of the art, surpassing all reported linear-probe VLMs. Building on this baseline, we present ORACLE-CT, an encoder-agnostic, organ-aware head that pairs Organ-Masked Attention (mask-restricted, per-organ pooling that yields spatial evidence) with Organ-Scalar Fusion (lightweight fusion of normalized volume and mean-HU cues). In the chest setting, ORACLE-CT masked attention model achieves AUROC 0.86 on CT-RATE; in the abdomen setting, on MERLIN (30 findings), our supervised baseline exceeds a reproduced zero-shot VLM baseline obtained by running publicly released weights through our pipeline, and adding masked attention plus scalar fusion further improves performance to AUROC 0.85. Together, these results deliver state-of-the-art supervised classification performance across both chest and abdomen CT under a unified evaluation protocol. The source code is available at https://github.com/lavsendahal/oracle-ct.

医学影像注意力机制CT分诊器官感知

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