用拓扑先验捕捉胶质母细胞瘤复杂结构,提升跨机构预测准确率。
Learning Glioblastoma Tumor Heterogeneity Using Brain Inspired Topological Neural Networks
- 基于3D卷积自编码器加拓扑正则化,保留肿瘤非欧几里得结构特征
- 在多中心数据上实现C-index 0.67(测试集),优于传统方法
- 可解释性分析显示50%预后信号集中在肿瘤及周边微环境
利用深度学习精准预测胶质母细胞瘤(GBM)预后面临极端空间与结构异质性的挑战,且不同机构的MRI采集协议不一致导致模型泛化能力差。传统Transformer和深度学习流程难以捕捉多尺度形态多样性,如碎片化坏死核心、浸润性边缘和分离的增强区域,引发扫描仪特异性伪影并影响跨站点预后。我们提出TopoGBM框架,通过多参数3D MRI学习保持异质性、对扫描仪鲁棒的表征。核心是使用拓扑正则化的3D卷积自编码器,在压缩潜在空间中保留肿瘤流形的复杂非欧几里得不变量。通过施加拓扑先验,显式建模侵袭性GBM的高变结构特征。在异质队列(UPENN、UCSF、RHUH)上评估,并在TCGA上外部验证,TopoGBM表现更优(测试集C-index 0.67,验证集0.58),优于在领域偏移下性能下降的基线。机制可解释性分析显示,重建残差高度集中于病理异质区,肿瘤区域与健康组织误差显著偏低(测试:0.03,验证:0.09)。此外,遮挡归因分析表明约50%的预后信号位于肿瘤及其多样化的周围微环境,证明该无监督方法具有临床可靠性。结果表明,引入拓扑先验可学习形态忠实的嵌入,同时保持跨机构稳健性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Accurate prognosis for Glioblastoma (GBM) using deep learning (DL) is hindered by extreme spatial and structural heterogeneity. Moreover, inconsistent MRI acquisition protocols across institutions hinder generalizability of models. Conventional transformer and DL pipelines often fail to capture the multi-scale morphological diversity such as fragmented necrotic cores, infiltrating margins, and disjoint enhancing components leading to scanner-specific artifacts and poor cross-site prognosis. We propose TopoGBM, a learning framework designed to capture heterogeneity-preserved, scanner-robust representations from multi-parametric 3D MRI. Central to our approach is a 3D convolutional autoencoder regularized by a topological regularization that preserves the complex, non-Euclidean invariants of the tumor's manifold within a compressed latent space. By enforcing these topological priors, TopoGBM explicitly models the high-variance structural signatures characteristic of aggressive GBM. Evaluated across heterogeneous cohorts (UPENN, UCSF, RHUH) and external validation on TCGA, TopoGBM achieves better performance (C-index 0.67 test, 0.58 validation), outperforming baselines that degrade under domain shift. Mechanistic interpretability analysis reveals that reconstruction residuals are highly localized to pathologically heterogeneous zones, with tumor-restricted and healthy tissue error significantly low (Test: 0.03, Validation: 0.09). Furthermore, occlusion-based attribution localizes approximately 50% of the prognostic signal to the tumor and the diverse peritumoral microenvironment advocating clinical reliability of the unsupervised learning method. Our findings demonstrate that incorporating topological priors enables the learning of morphology-faithful embeddings that capture tumor heterogeneity while maintaining cross-institutional robustness.
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