arXiv:2602.21179cs.CV2026-02被引 1

用像素标注训练图模型,自动获得解剖对应关系。

Mask-HybridGNet: Graph-based segmentation with emergent anatomical correspondence from pixel-level supervision

  • 通过切比雪夫距离与边正则化,将可变长度边界对齐到固定长度图节点
  • 无需人工标注对应点,预测节点即稳定对应特定解剖位置
  • 适合需要解剖一致性分析的医学影像研究者

基于图的医学图像分割通过边界图表示解剖结构,提供固定拓扑的地标和群体级对应关系。但临床应用受限于缺乏跨患者点对点对应的手动标注数据。我们提出Mask-HybridGNet框架,直接使用标准像素级掩码训练图模型,无需人工地标标注。该方法通过结合切比雪夫距离监督与边正则化,将可变长度真实边界对齐至固定长度地标预测,确保局部平滑与均匀分布,并经可微栅格化进一步优化。该框架一个显著涌现特性是:预测地标位置在不同患者间一致对应特定解剖部位,无需显式对应监督。这种隐式图谱学习支持时序追踪、跨切片重建与形态群体分析。除直接分割外,可从任意高质量像素模型中提取对应关系,生成稳定解剖图谱。在胸部X光、心脏超声、心脏MRI及胎儿成像上的实验表明,本模型性能媲美顶尖像素方法,同时通过固定图邻接矩阵保障边界连通性,实现解剖合理性。该框架利用海量现有像素掩码,构建保持拓扑完整性的结构化模型并提供隐式对应关系。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Graph-based medical image segmentation represents anatomical structures using boundary graphs, providing fixed-topology landmarks and inherent population-level correspondences. However, their clinical adoption has been hindered by a major requirement: training datasets with manually annotated landmarks that maintain point-to-point correspondences across patients rarely exist in practice. We introduce Mask-HybridGNet, a framework that trains graph-based models directly using standard pixel-wise masks, eliminating the need for manual landmark annotations. Our approach aligns variable-length ground truth boundaries with fixed-length landmark predictions by combining Chamfer distance supervision and edge-based regularization to ensure local smoothness and regular landmark distribution, further refined via differentiable rasterization. A significant emergent property of this framework is that predicted landmark positions become consistently associated with specific anatomical locations across patients without explicit correspondence supervision. This implicit atlas learning enables temporal tracking, cross-slice reconstruction, and morphological population analyses. Beyond direct segmentation, Mask-HybridGNet can extract correspondences from existing segmentation masks, allowing it to generate stable anatomical atlases from any high-quality pixel-based model. Experiments across chest radiography, cardiac ultrasound, cardiac MRI, and fetal imaging demonstrate that our model achieves competitive results against state-of-the-art pixel-based methods, while ensuring anatomical plausibility by enforcing boundary connectivity through a fixed graph adjacency matrix. This framework leverages the vast availability of standard segmentation masks to build structured models that maintain topological integrity and provide implicit correspondences.

医学图像分割图神经网络解剖对应像素监督

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