用拓扑图增强视觉模型,让机器人导航更准地分辨血管岔路口。
Vision-Based Reasoning with Topology-Encoded Graphs for Anatomical Path Disambiguation in Robot-Assisted Endovascular Navigation
- 先用带坐标注意力的U-Net精准分割血管,再构建含几何特征的血管图
- 图注意力网络识别真实岔口,95%成功率优于传统方法
- 适合做血管介入手术机器人研发,解决2D影像带来的导航歧义
机器人辅助经皮冠状动脉介入手术受限于二维数字减影血管造影(DSA)的固有缺陷。与医生可直接操作导丝并结合触觉反馈和解剖知识不同,远程操控的机器人系统只能依赖二维投影,缺乏空间上下文和触觉感知,容易在血管分叉处产生投影混淆。为此,提出两阶段框架SCAR-UNet-GAT实现实时路径规划。第一阶段采用空间坐标注意力正则化U-Net(SCAR-UNet)进行精准冠状动脉血管分割,多层级注意力机制提升对细长迂曲血管的分割精度,并增强抗成像噪声能力。从二值掩码中提取血管中心线与分叉点,融合分支直径、交叉角度等几何描述符与局部DSA图像块,构建节点特征。第二阶段使用图注意力网络(GAT)在血管图上推理,识别解剖一致且临床可行的路径,有效区分真实分叉与投影造成的伪交叉。在临床DSA数据集上,SCAR-UNet的Dice系数达93.1%;路径消歧方面,所提GAT方法成功率达95.0%,目标抵达成功率为90.0%,显著优于传统最短路径规划(60.0% 和 55.0%)及启发式规划(75.0% 和 70.0%)。机器人平台验证进一步证明了该框架的实用性和鲁棒性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Robotic-assisted percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is constrained by the inherent limitations of 2D Digital Subtraction Angiography (DSA). Unlike physicians, who can directly manipulate guidewires and integrate tactile feedback with their prior anatomical knowledge, teleoperated robotic systems must rely solely on 2D projections. This mode of operation, simultaneously lacking spatial context and tactile sensation, may give rise to projection-induced ambiguities at vascular bifurcations. To address this challenge, we propose a two-stage framework (SCAR-UNet-GAT) for real-time robotic path planning. In the first stage, SCAR-UNet, a spatial-coordinate-attention-regularized U-Net, is employed for accurate coronary vessel segmentation. The integration of multi-level attention mechanisms enhances the delineation of thin, tortuous vessels and improves robustness against imaging noise. From the resulting binary masks, vessel centerlines and bifurcation points are extracted, and geometric descriptors (e.g., branch diameter, intersection angles) are fused with local DSA patches to construct node features. In the second stage, a Graph Attention Network (GAT) reasons over the vessel graph to identify anatomically consistent and clinically feasible trajectories, effectively distinguishing true bifurcations from projection-induced false crossings. On a clinical DSA dataset, SCAR-UNet achieved a Dice coefficient of 93.1%. For path disambiguation, the proposed GAT-based method attained a success rate of 95.0% and a target-arrival success rate of 90.0%, substantially outperforming conventional shortest-path planning (60.0% and 55.0%) and heuristic-based planning (75.0% and 70.0%). Validation on a robotic platform further confirmed the practical feasibility and robustness of the proposed framework.
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