用少量标注实现肠癌腺体精准分割,避免漏检关键区域。
Weakly Supervised Teacher-Student Framework with Progressive Pseudo-mask Refinement for Gland Segmentation
- 通过师生框架和动态伪掩码优化,逐步完善未标注区域。
- 在公开数据集上达80.10%的交并比,90%以上骰子系数。
- 适合临床少样本场景,尤其适用于病理医生标注困难时。
结直肠癌组织学分级依赖于腺体结构的精确分割。现有深度学习方法需大量像素级标注,耗时且难以在常规临床中获取。弱监督语义分割提供了一种可行替代方案,但基于类激活图的方法常生成不完整伪掩码,仅关注高区分性区域,无法有效监督未标注腺体。本文提出一种弱监督师生框架,结合稀疏病理学家标注与指数移动平均稳定教师网络,生成精细化伪掩码。该框架融合置信度过滤、教师预测与有限真值的自适应融合,以及课程引导的渐进式细化策略,逐步分割未标注腺体区域。在俄亥俄州立大学韦克斯纳医学中心的60张染色全切片图像队列上评估,并对比公开数据集Gland Segmentation、TCGA COAD、TCGA READ和SPIDER。结果表明,在Gland Segmentation数据集上达到80.10%的平均交并比和89.10%的平均骰子系数;跨队列验证显示对TCGA COAD和TCGA READ具有强泛化能力,无需额外标注;但在SPIDER上性能下降,反映领域偏移问题。结论:该框架为结直肠病理腺体分割提供了高效标注与良好泛化能力的解决方案。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Background and objectives: Colorectal cancer histopathological grading depends on accurate segmentation of glandular structures. Current deep learning approaches rely on large scale pixel level annotations that are labor intensive and difficult to obtain in routine clinical practice. Weakly supervised semantic segmentation offers a promising alternative. However, class activation map based methods often produce incomplete pseudo masks that emphasize highly discriminative regions and fail to supervise unannotated glandular structures. We propose a weakly supervised teacher student framework that leverages sparse pathologist annotations and an Exponential Moving Average stabilized teacher network to generate refined pseudo masks. Methods: The framework integrates confidence based filtering, adaptive fusion of teacher predictions with limited ground truth, and curriculum guided refinement to progressively segment unannotated glandular regions. The method was evaluated on an institutional colorectal cancer cohort from The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center consisting of 60 hematoxylin and eosin stained whole slide images and on public datasets including the Gland Segmentation dataset, TCGA COAD, TCGA READ, and SPIDER. Results: On the Gland Segmentation dataset the framework achieved a mean Intersection over Union of 80.10 and a mean Dice coefficient of 89.10. Cross cohort evaluation demonstrated robust generalization on TCGA COAD and TCGA READ without additional annotations, while reduced performance on SPIDER reflected domain shift. Conclusions: The proposed framework provides an annotation efficient and generalizable approach for gland segmentation in colorectal histopathology.
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