arXiv:2603.06167cs.CV2026-03

用简单描述生成乳腺超声伪标签,仅2.5%标注数据就接近全监督效果

A Semi-Supervised Framework for Breast Ultrasound Segmentation with Training-Free Pseudo-Label Generation and Label Refinement

  • 用外观描述生成跨域伪标签,无需训练即可适配医学图像
  • 在4个数据集上仅用2.5%标注数据达到全监督水平
  • 方法可扩展至其他模态疾病,只需改描述词即可

半监督学习(SSL)在乳腺超声(BUS)图像分割中前景广阔,但在极少量标注下常因伪标签不稳定导致性能下降。现有视觉语言模型(VLMs)虽有望生成伪标签,但因领域提示难以迁移而效果有限。为此,我们提出一种无需训练的半监督框架,通过简单外观描述(如‘深色椭圆形’)实现自然图像与医学图像间的结构迁移,使VLM生成结构一致的伪标签。这些伪标签用于初始化静态教师模型,捕捉病灶全局结构先验;结合指数移动平均教师,引入不确定性熵加权融合与自适应不确定性引导反向对比学习,提升边界判别力。在四个BUS数据集上的实验表明,本方法仅需2.5%标注数据即可达到全监督模型性能,显著优于现有SSL方法。该范式易于扩展:对其他影像模态或疾病,仅需提供全局外观描述即可获得可靠伪监督,实现低标注下的可扩展半监督医学图像分割。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as a promising paradigm for breast ultrasound (BUS) image segmentation, but it often suffers from unstable pseudo labels under extremely limited annotations, leading to inaccurate supervision and degraded performance. Recent vision-language models (VLMs) provide a new opportunity for pseudo-label generation, yet their effectiveness on BUS images remains limited because domain-specific prompts are difficult to transfer. To address this issue, we propose a semi-supervised framework with training-free pseudo-label generation and label refinement. By leveraging simple appearance-based descriptions (e.g., dark oval), our method enables cross-domain structural transfer between natural and medical images, allowing VLMs to generate structurally consistent pseudo labels. These pseudo labels are used to warm up a static teacher that captures global structural priors of breast lesions. Combined with an exponential moving average teacher, we further introduce uncertainty entropy weighted fusion and adaptive uncertainty-guided reverse contrastive learning to improve boundary discrimination. Experiments on four BUS datasets demonstrate that our method achieves performance comparable to fully supervised models even with only 2.5% labeled data, significantly outperforming existing SSL approaches. Moreover, the proposed paradigm is readily extensible: for other imaging modalities or diseases, only a global appearance description is required to obtain reliable pseudo supervision, enabling scalable semi-supervised medical image segmentation under limited annotations.

乳腺超声半监督学习伪标签视觉语言模型

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