arXiv:2602.00309cs.CVcs.AI2026-02

利用放射科常规标注自动生成3D病变分割,大幅降低人工标注成本。

Opportunistic Promptable Segmentation: Leveraging Routine Radiological Annotations to Guide 3D CT Lesion Segmentation

  • 将放射科常规的箭头、线条标注转化为3D分割,基于新模型SAM2CT实现。
  • 对60例临床数据生成的分割中,87%符合临床标准或仅需微调。
  • 零样本性能优异,适合快速构建大规模3D医学影像数据集。

CT影像机器学习模型的发展依赖于大规模高质量标注数据集。尽管临床PACS系统中存在大量CT图像和报告,但关键病灶的3D分割成本高昂,通常需放射科医生长时间手动标注。而日常读片中,医生常留下有限标注(如箭头、线段),这些信息常以GSPS对象形式存储于PACS中。本文提出‘机会式可提示分割’范式,即提取这些稀疏标注,结合可提示分割模型生成3D分割。为此,我们提出SAM2CT——首个专为CT体积设计的可提示分割模型,扩展了提示编码器以支持箭头和线段输入,并引入针对3D医学体数据的内存条件记忆(MCM)。在公开病变分割基准上,SAM2CT优于现有可提示分割模型及类似训练基线,箭头提示下达Dice系数0.649,线段提示下达0.757。将其应用于临床PACS中60例历史GSPS标注,放射科医生评估显示87%生成的3D分割达到临床可用或仅需轻微修正。此外,该模型在急诊部特定病灶上表现出色的零样本性能。结果表明,挖掘历史GSPS标注是构建大规模3D CT分割数据集的有前景且可扩展的方法。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

The development of machine learning models for CT imaging depends on the availability of large, high-quality, and diverse annotated datasets. Although large volumes of CT images and reports are readily available in clinical picture archiving and communication systems (PACS), 3D segmentations of critical findings are costly to obtain, typically requiring extensive manual annotation by radiologists. On the other hand, it is common for radiologists to provide limited annotations of findings during routine reads, such as line measurements and arrows, that are often stored in PACS as GSPS objects. We posit that these sparse annotations can be extracted along with CT volumes and converted into 3D segmentations using promptable segmentation models, a paradigm we term Opportunistic Promptable Segmentation. To enable this paradigm, we propose SAM2CT, the first promptable segmentation model designed to convert radiologist annotations into 3D segmentations in CT volumes. SAM2CT builds upon SAM2 by extending the prompt encoder to support arrow and line inputs and by introducing Memory-Conditioned Memories (MCM), a memory encoding strategy tailored to 3D medical volumes. On public lesion segmentation benchmarks, SAM2CT outperforms existing promptable segmentation models and similarly trained baselines, achieving Dice similarity coefficients of 0.649 for arrow prompts and 0.757 for line prompts. Applying the model to pre-existing GSPS annotations from a clinical PACS (N = 60), SAM2CT generates 3D segmentations that are clinically acceptable or require only minor adjustments in 87% of cases, as scored by radiologists. Additionally, SAM2CT demonstrates strong zero-shot performance on select Emergency Department findings. These results suggest that large-scale mining of historical GSPS annotations represents a promising and scalable approach for generating 3D CT segmentation datasets.

3D分割医疗影像可提示分割数据增强

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