arXiv:2602.13658cs.CV2026-02中稿 · IJCARS, IPCAI 2026…

用强化学习精简心脏超声采集,少拍32%视频仍准判心衰风险。

Optimizing Point-of-Care Ultrasound Video Acquisition for Probabilistic Multi-Task Heart Failure Detection

  • RL代理动态选图或停拍,按需获取最有效视频
  • 仅用32%视频达77.2%准确率,同时输出诊断置信度
  • 适合临床快节奏场景,可扩展至其他心脏指标

目的:床旁超声(POCUS)需在时间与操作成本受限下支持临床决策。本文提出个性化数据采集策略:基于部分多视角图像的患者数据,强化学习(RL)代理决定下一帧采集或终止采集,以支持心力衰竭(HF)评估。终止后,共享多视角变压器模型联合预测主动脉瓣狭窄(AS)严重程度与左室射血分数(LVEF),输出不确定性信息,实现诊断性能与采集成本之间的显式权衡。方法:将POCUS建模为序列采集问题:每步由视频选择器(RL代理)决定下一视图或终止采集;终止后,共享多视图变换器进行多任务推理,包含有序列化AS分类与LVEF回归,并输出高斯预测分布,生成各AS等级与EF阈值的概率。该概率驱动奖励函数,平衡预期诊断收益与采集成本,生成个体化采集路径。结果:数据集含12,180例患者研究,训练/验证/测试集比例为75/15/15。在1,820例测试数据上,本方法在使用比完整研究少32%视频的前提下,达到77.2%平均平衡准确率(bACC),涵盖AS分级与LVEF估计,表现出在采集预算下的稳健多任务性能。结论:个性化的、成本敏感的采集策略可优化POCUS流程,同时保持决策质量,生成适用于床旁的可解释扫描路径。该框架可扩展至更多心脏终点,值得开展前瞻性评估以推进临床整合。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Purpose: Echocardiography with point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) must support clinical decision-making under tight bedside time and operator-effort constraints. We introduce a personalized data acquisition strategy in which an RL agent, given a partially observed multi-view study, selects the next view to acquire or terminates acquisition to support heart-failure (HF) assessment. Upon termination, a diagnostic model jointly predicts aortic stenosis (AS) severity and left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), two key HF biomarkers, and outputs uncertainty, enabling an explicit trade-off between diagnostic performance and acquisition cost. Methods: We model POCUS as a sequential acquisition problem: at each step, a video selector (RL agent) chooses the next view to acquire or terminates acquisition. Upon termination, a shared multi-view transformer performs multi-task inference with two heads, ordinal AS classification, and LVEF regression, and outputs Gaussian predictive distributions yielding ordinal probabilities over AS classes and EF thresholds. These probabilities drive a reward that balances expected diagnostic benefit against acquisition cost, producing patient-specific acquisition pathways. Results: The dataset comprises 12,180 patient-level studies, split into training/validation/test sets (75/15/15). On the 1,820 test studies, our method matches full-study performance while using 32% fewer videos, achieving 77.2% mean balanced accuracy (bACC) across AS severity classification and LVEF estimation, demonstrating robust multi-task performance under acquisition budgets. Conclusion: Patient-tailored, cost-aware acquisition can streamline POCUS workflows while preserving decision quality, producing interpretable scan pathways suited to bedside use. The framework is extensible to additional cardiac endpoints and merits prospective evaluation for clinical integration.

超声采集强化学习心衰检测多任务学习

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