用混合注意力-卷积网络精准分割膀胱内血管,助力癌症手术导航
Bladder Vessel Segmentation using a Hybrid Attention-Convolution Framework
- 融合Transformer捕捉血管整体结构与CNN精修细小分支
- 在BlaVeS数据集上达到0.94准确率、0.61精确率和0.66clDice
- 有效抑制黏膜褶皱误检,适合动态变化的膀胱内镜导航
尿路上皮癌随访需在多次手术中追踪肿瘤位置,但可变形且中空的膀胱缺乏稳定定位标志。内镜下可见的血管可作为患者特异的“血管指纹”用于导航,但自动分割面临标签稀疏、气泡伪影、光照变化、持续形变及黏膜褶皱模仿血管等挑战。现有先进方法难以应对这些领域特异性问题。本文提出混合注意力-卷积(HAC)架构,结合Transformer捕获全局血管拓扑先验,以及CNN学习残差精修图以恢复细小血管细节。Transformer在剔除短支与末端分支的优化真值数据上训练,强化结构连通性。为缓解数据稀缺,采用基于物理的自监督预训练策略,在无标签数据上使用临床合理增强。在包含内镜视频帧的BlaVeS数据集上,本方法实现0.94准确率、0.61精确率和0.66 clDice,优于现有医学分割模型。关键优势在于成功抑制了随膀胱充盈/排空动态变化的黏膜褶皱引起的假阳性。因此,HAC提供了临床导航所需的可靠结构稳定性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Urinary bladder cancer surveillance requires tracking tumor sites across repeated interventions, yet the deformable and hollow bladder lacks stable landmarks for orientation. While blood vessels visible during endoscopy offer a patient-specific "vascular fingerprint" for navigation, automated segmentation is challenged by imperfect endoscopic data, including sparse labels, artifacts like bubbles or variable lighting, continuous deformation, and mucosal folds that mimic vessels. State-of-the-art vessel segmentation methods often fail to address these domain-specific complexities. We introduce a Hybrid Attention-Convolution (HAC) architecture that combines Transformers to capture global vessel topology prior with a CNN that learns a residual refinement map to precisely recover thin-vessel details. To prioritize structural connectivity, the Transformer is trained on optimized ground truth data that exclude short and terminal branches. Furthermore, to address data scarcity, we employ a physics-aware pretraining, that is a self-supervised strategy using clinically grounded augmentations on unlabeled data. Evaluated on the BlaVeS dataset, consisting of endoscopic video frames, our approach achieves high accuracy (0.94) and superior precision (0.61) and clDice (0.66) compared to state-of-the-art medical segmentation models. Crucially, our method successfully suppresses false positives from mucosal folds that dynamically appear and vanish as the bladder fills and empties during surgery. Hence, HAC provides the reliable structural stability required for clinical navigation.
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