用时间条件流匹配模型,精准分割噪声显微图像中的微管结构。
MTFlow: Time-Conditioned Flow Matching for Microtubule Segmentation in Noisy Microscopy Images
- 通过迭代向量场逐步修正噪声掩码,实现可解释的轨迹优化。
- 在真实和合成数据上表现优于传统方法,精度接近顶尖模型。
- 适合生物医学中细长结构分析,尤其擅长处理复杂交叉与噪声。
微管是细胞骨架纤维,在多种细胞过程中起关键作用,也是若干疾病的治疗靶点。准确分割微管网络对研究其组织与动态至关重要,但因纤维弯曲、密集交叉及图像噪声仍具挑战。本文提出MTFlow,一种新型时间条件流匹配模型用于微管分割。不同于传统U-Net单次预测掩码,MTFlow学习向量场,逐步将噪声掩码传输至真实标签,实现可解释的轨迹式精修。模型结合U-Net主干与时间嵌入,捕捉边界不确定性消除的动态过程。我们在合成与真实微管数据集上训练并评估该模型,并测试其在视网膜血管、神经等曲线结构公开数据集上的泛化能力。结果表明,MTFlow分割精度媲美当前最优模型,提供高效精准的细丝结构分析工具,优于人工或半自动方法。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Microtubules are cytoskeletal filaments that play essential roles in many cellular processes and are key therapeutic targets in several diseases. Accurate segmentation of microtubule networks is critical for studying their organization and dynamics but remains challenging due to filament curvature, dense crossings, and image noise. We present MTFlow, a novel time-conditioned flow-matching model for microtubule segmentation. Unlike conventional U-Net variants that predict masks in a single pass, MTFlow learns vector fields that iteratively transport noisy masks toward the ground truth, enabling interpretable, trajectory-based refinement. Our architecture combines a U-Net backbone with temporal embeddings, allowing the model to capture the dynamics of uncertainty resolution along filament boundaries. We trained and evaluated MTFlow on synthetic and real microtubule datasets and assessed its generalization capability on public biomedical datasets of curvilinear structures such as retinal blood vessels and nerves. MTFlow achieves competitive segmentation accuracy comparable to state-of-the-art models, offering a powerful and time-efficient tool for filamentous structure analysis with more precise annotations than manual or semi-automatic approaches.
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