为膝关节MRI诊断定制患者特异性影像组学特征集,提升可解释性与性能。
Retrieving Patient-Specific Radiomic Feature Sets for Transparent Knee MRI Assessment
- 采用两阶段检索策略,从大规模特征池中选出互补且多样化的特征组合。
- 在前十字韧带撕裂和骨关节炎分级任务中,性能优于传统top-k方法。
- 生成可审计的特征集,帮助医生理解预测依据,适合临床可解释性需求场景。
经典影像组学特征用于量化图像外观与强度模式。相比端到端深度学习模型,基于低维参数分类器的影像组学流程具备更高透明度,但常因依赖群体预设特征集而表现较差。近期自适应影像组学利用深度学习预测特征权重,并筛选特征池F中前k个(通常~10^3)特征。然而,这种边际排序易引入冗余描述子,忽略特征间的互补关系。本文提出一种患者特异性特征集选择框架,为每位患者预测单一紧凑特征集,聚焦互补与多样性证据,而非边际最优特征。针对特征池中C(|F|,k)的组合爆炸问题,采用两阶段检索:随机采样多样化候选特征集,再通过学习的评分函数进行排序,选取最优特征集。系统包含特征集评分器与最终分类器。实验表明,该两阶段检索近似全搜索最优解。在前十字韧带撕裂检测与骨关节炎Kellgren-Lawrence分级任务中,性能超越相同k值下的top-k方法,且与端到端深度学习模型相当,同时保持高透明度。模型输出可审计特征集,关联临床结果与特定解剖区域及影像组学类别,使医生可追溯预测依据。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Classical radiomic features are designed to quantify image appearance and intensity patterns. Compared with end-to-end deep learning (DL) models trained for disease classification, radiomics pipelines with low-dimensional parametric classifiers offer enhanced transparency and interpretability, yet often underperform because of the reliance on population-level predefined feature sets. Recent work on adaptive radiomics uses DL to predict feature weights over a radiomic pool, then thresholds these weights to retain the top-k features from large radiomic pool F (often ~10^3). However, such marginal ranking can over-admit redundant descriptors and overlook complementary feature interactions. We propose a patient-specific feature-set selection framework that predicts a single compact feature set per subject, targeting complementary and diverse evidence rather than marginal top-k features. To overcome the intractable combinatorial search space of F choose k features, our method utilizes a 2-stage retrieval strategy: randomly sample diverse candidate feature sets, then rank these sets with a learned scoring function to select a high-performing feature set for the specific patient. The system consists of a feature-set scorer, and a classifier that performs the final diagnosis. We empirically show that the proposed two-stage retrieval approximates the original exhaustive all k-feature selection. Validating on tasks including ACL tear detection and KL grading for osteoarthritis, the experimental results achieve diagnostic performance, outperforming the top-k approach with the same k values, and competitive with end-to-end DL models while maintaining high transparency. The model generates auditable feature sets that link clinical outcomes to specific anatomical regions and radiomic families, allowing clinicians to inspect which anatomical structures and quantitative descriptors drive the prediction.
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