arXiv:2602.19822cs.CVcs.AI2026-02

用MRI生成超声图,高效准确筛查子宫内膜癌侵袭

Efficient endometrial carcinoma screening via cross-modal synthesis and gradient distillation

  • 通过无配对MRI生成高保真超声图像,解决病理数据少问题
  • 轻量模型结合梯度蒸馏,0.289 GFLOPs下实现99.5%敏感度
  • 适合基层医疗实时筛查,让普通超声也能达到专家水平

早期发现肌层浸润对子宫内膜癌(EC)的分期与救命式管理至关重要。经阴道超声是资源有限初级诊疗环境中的主要筛查手段,但其诊断可靠性受组织对比度低、操作者依赖性强及阳性病理样本稀缺严重制约。现有人工智能方案难以克服严重的类别不平衡和微弱影像特征,尤其在初级诊所严格的计算限制下。本文提出一种自动化、高效的两阶段深度学习框架,同时解决数据与计算瓶颈。为缓解病理数据稀缺,开发结构引导的跨模态生成网络,从非配对磁共振成像(MRI)数据中合成多样且高保真的超声图像,严格保留临床关键解剖交界。进一步引入轻量级筛查网络,采用梯度蒸馏,将高容量教师模型的判别知识传递给学生模型,动态引导注意力聚焦任务关键区域。在包含7,951名参与者的多中心大样本队列上评估,模型达到99.5%敏感度、97.2%特异度和0.987的曲线下面积,计算成本极低(0.289 GFLOPs),显著优于专家超声医师平均诊断准确率。本方法表明,结合跨模态合成增强与知识驱动的高效建模,可使资源受限的初级医疗环境实现专家级、实时癌症筛查。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Early detection of myometrial invasion is critical for the staging and life-saving management of endometrial carcinoma (EC), a prevalent global malignancy. Transvaginal ultrasound serves as the primary, accessible screening modality in resource-constrained primary care settings; however, its diagnostic reliability is severely hindered by low tissue contrast, high operator dependence, and a pronounced scarcity of positive pathological samples. Existing artificial intelligence solutions struggle to overcome this severe class imbalance and the subtle imaging features of invasion, particularly under the strict computational limits of primary care clinics. Here we present an automated, highly efficient two-stage deep learning framework that resolves both data and computational bottlenecks in EC screening. To mitigate pathological data scarcity, we develop a structure-guided cross-modal generation network that synthesizes diverse, high-fidelity ultrasound images from unpaired magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data, strictly preserving clinically essential anatomical junctions. Furthermore, we introduce a lightweight screening network utilizing gradient distillation, which transfers discriminative knowledge from a high-capacity teacher model to dynamically guide sparse attention towards task-critical regions. Evaluated on a large, multicenter cohort of 7,951 participants, our model achieves a sensitivity of 99.5\%, a specificity of 97.2\%, and an area under the curve of 0.987 at a minimal computational cost (0.289 GFLOPs), substantially outperforming the average diagnostic accuracy of expert sonographers. Our approach demonstrates that combining cross-modal synthetic augmentation with knowledge-driven efficient modeling can democratize expert-level, real-time cancer screening for resource-constrained primary care settings.

癌症筛查跨模态生成轻量模型医学影像

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