通过增强驱动泛化,实现跨模态医学图像分割的联邦学习。
Federated Learning for Cross-Modality Medical Image Segmentation via Augmentation-Driven Generalization
- 设计针对跨模态的增强策略,模拟不同影像模态间的外观差异。
- 胰腺分割Dice分数提升498%,达0.437,联邦学习达到集中训练93-98%精度。
- 无需配对数据,适合隐私敏感的多中心医疗场景使用。
人工智能在医学图像分析中展现出变革性潜力,但受限于机构间分散且受隐私保护的数据孤岛,构建鲁棒、泛化的分割模型仍具挑战。尽管联邦学习(FL)可在不集中数据的前提下协作训练模型,跨模态域偏移仍是关键难题,尤其当模型在一种模态上训练后难以推广至另一模态。现有许多方法依赖患者级配对多模态数据或复杂架构,难以在真实临床环境中应用。本文研究一个现实的联邦学习场景:每个客户端仅持有单模态数据(CT或MRI),系统性评估多种增强策略以促进跨模态泛化。以腹部器官分割和全心脏分割为多分类与二分类基准,对比了基于卷积的空间增强、频域操作、域特定归一化及全局强度非线性(GIN)增强。结果表明,GIN在集中式与联邦设置下均显著优于其他方法,能有效模拟跨模态外观变化同时保留解剖结构。胰腺分割的Dice分数从0.073提升至0.437,增幅达498%。所提联邦方法实现集中训练93-98%的准确率,证明在不牺牲数据隐私的前提下具备强跨模态泛化能力,为多样化医疗系统中的联邦AI部署提供了可行路径。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Artificial intelligence has emerged as a transformative tool in medical image analysis, yet developing robust and generalizable segmentation models remains difficult due to fragmented, privacy-constrained imaging data siloed across institutions. While federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training without centralizing data, cross-modality domain shifts pose a critical challenge, particularly when models trained on one modality fail to generalize to another. Many existing solutions require paired multimodal data per patient or rely on complex architectures, both of which are impractical in real clinical settings. In this work, we consider a realistic FL scenario where each client holds single-modality data (CT or MRI), and systematically investigate augmentation strategies for cross-modality generalization. Using abdominal organ segmentation and whole-heart segmentation as representative multi-class and binary segmentation benchmarks, we evaluate convolution-based spatial augmentation, frequency-domain manipulation, domain-specific normalization, and global intensity nonlinear (GIN) augmentation. Our results show that GIN consistently outperforms alternatives in both centralized and federated settings by simulating cross-modality appearance variations while preserving anatomical structure. For the pancreas, Dice score improved from 0.073 to 0.437, a 498% gain. Our federated approach achieves 93-98% of centralized training accuracy, demonstrating strong cross-modality generalization without compromising data privacy, pointing toward feasible federated AI deployment across diverse healthcare systems.
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