arXiv:2602.12933cs.CVcs.AI2026-02

无需病灶标注即可精准对齐脑转移瘤病理影像,支持多中心研究。

Deep-Learning Atlas Registration for Melanoma Brain Metastases: Preserving Pathology While Enabling Cohort-Level Analyses

  • 基于可微分变形配准,自动对齐个体脑影像到通用模板。
  • 在三中心209例数据上实现90%以上重叠率与亚毫米级精度。
  • 揭示黑色素瘤脑转移偏好靠近灰白质交界和皮层区域。

黑色素瘤脑转移(MBM)空间异质性强,受解剖变异和不同MRI扫描协议影响,难以开展队列级分析。本文提出一种全可微分的深度学习变形配准框架,将个体病理脑影像对齐至通用模板,无需病灶掩码或预处理。通过基于距离变换解剖标签的前向模型相似性度量,解决因转移灶缺失导致的解剖对应缺失问题,并引入体积保持正则项确保形变合理性。在三个中心共209例患者数据上评估,注册性能优异(DSC 0.89-0.92,HD 6.79-7.60 mm,ASSD 0.63-0.77 mm),同时保留转移灶体积。空间分析显示MBM显著富集于皮质和尾状核,白质中较少,且集中在灰白质交界处。经体积校正后,无动脉供血区出现转移频率升高。该方法无需病灶标注即可实现稳健的脑图谱配准,支持可重复的多中心研究,证实并细化了已知的空间偏好特征。公开代码促进后续扩展至其他脑肿瘤及神经疾病研究。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Melanoma brain metastases (MBM) are common and spatially heterogeneous lesions, complicating cohort-level analyses due to anatomical variability and differing MRI protocols. We propose a fully differentiable, deep-learning-based deformable registration framework that aligns individual pathological brains to a common atlas while preserving metastatic tissue without requiring lesion masks or preprocessing. Missing anatomical correspondences caused by metastases are handled through a forward-model similarity metric based on distance-transformed anatomical labels, combined with a volume-preserving regularization term to ensure deformation plausibility. Registration performance was evaluated using Dice coefficient (DSC), Hausdorff distance (HD), average symmetric surface distance (ASSD), and Jacobian-based measures. The method was applied to 209 MBM patients from three centres, enabling standardized mapping of metastases to anatomical, arterial, and perfusion atlases. The framework achieved high registration accuracy across datasets (DSC 0.89-0.92, HD 6.79-7.60 mm, ASSD 0.63-0.77 mm) while preserving metastatic volumes. Spatial analysis demonstrated significant over-representation of MBM in the cerebral cortex and putamen, under-representation in white matter, and consistent localization near the gray-white matter junction. No arterial territory showed increased metastasis frequency after volume correction. This approach enables robust atlas registration of pathological brain MRI without lesion masks and supports reproducible multi-centre analyses. Applied to MBM, it confirms and refines known spatial predilections, particularly preferential seeding near the gray-white matter junction and cortical regions. The publicly available implementation facilitates reproducible research and extension to other brain tumours and neurological pathologies.

医学图像配准脑转移深度学习

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