用结构引导动态卷积,提升医学图像分割边界精度
SGDC: Structurally-Guided Dynamic Convolution for Medical Image Segmentation
- 引入结构提取分支显式指导动态卷积核生成
- 在多个数据集上将边界误差降低2.05,交并比提升1.49%
- 适合对细微结构敏感的医学图像分析任务
空间可变动态卷积为深度神经网络融入空间自适应性提供了合理途径。然而,主流医学分割方法通常通过平均池化生成动态卷积核,这会隐式地将高频空间细节压缩为粗糙表示,导致预测过度平滑,损害细粒度临床结构的保真度。为此,本文提出一种新型结构引导动态卷积(SGDC)机制,利用显式监督的结构提取分支来指导动态卷积核和门控信号的生成,实现结构感知特征调制。具体而言,该辅助分支提供的高保真边界信息与语义特征融合,实现空间精确的特征调制。通过以像素级结构引导替代上下文聚合,有效防止了平均池化带来的信息丢失。实验表明,SGDC在ISIC 2016、PH2、ISIC 2018和CoNIC数据集上达到当前最优性能,边界保真度显著提升,将95%豪斯多夫距离(HD95)降低2.05,交并比相比基于池化的基线提升0.99%–1.49%。该机制在小目标检测等细粒度视觉任务中亦具扩展潜力,为医学图像分析中结构完整性保持提供了一种原则性解决方案。代码已公开于https://github.com/solstice0621/SGDC。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Spatially variant dynamic convolution provides a principled approach of integrating spatial adaptivity into deep neural networks. However, mainstream designs in medical segmentation commonly generate dynamic kernels through average pooling, which implicitly collapses high-frequency spatial details into a coarse, spatially-compressed representation, leading to over-smoothed predictions that degrade the fidelity of fine-grained clinical structures. To address this limitation, we propose a novel Structure-Guided Dynamic Convolution (SGDC) mechanism, which leverages an explicitly supervised structure-extraction branch to guide the generation of dynamic kernels and gating signals for structure-aware feature modulation. Specifically, the high-fidelity boundary information from this auxiliary branch is fused with semantic features to enable spatially-precise feature modulation. By replacing context aggregation with pixel-wise structural guidance, the proposed design effectively prevents the information loss introduced by average pooling. Experimental results show that SGDC achieves state-of-the-art performance on ISIC 2016, PH2, ISIC 2018, and CoNIC datasets, delivering superior boundary fidelity by reducing the Hausdorff Distance (HD95) by 2.05, and providing consistent IoU gains of 0.99\%-1.49\% over pooling-based baselines. Moreover, the mechanism exhibits strong potential for extension to other fine-grained, structure-sensitive vision tasks, such as small-object detection, offering a principled solution for preserving structural integrity in medical image analysis. To facilitate reproducibility and encourage further research, the implementation code for both our SGE and SGDC modules has been is publicly released at https://github.com/solstice0621/SGDC.
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