用可解释框架自动评估脊柱不稳,提升癌症患者CT筛查效率
Topology-Guided Biomechanical Profiling: A White-Box Framework for Opportunistic Screening of Spinal Instability on Routine CT
- 基于几何结构解耦影像感知与力学推理,解决骨质破坏带来的分割歧义
- 在482例多中心数据上实现90.2%三分类准确率,优于临床医生
- 支持医生理解判断过程,适合肿瘤科与放射科开展智能筛查
常规肿瘤CT为筛查脊柱不稳提供了理想机会,但因斯宾尼尔不稳评分(SINS)需复杂几何分析,常错过预防性固定时机。自动化评估受转移性骨溶解影响,导致拓扑模糊,干扰标准分割与黑箱AI。本文提出拓扑引导生物力学分析(TGBP),一种可审计的白盒框架,将解剖感知与结构推理分离。TGBP依托两项确定性几何创新:(i) 以椎管为参考的分区法,解决后外侧边界模糊;(ii) 基于协方差的方向包围框(OBB)上下文感知形态归一化,量化椎体塌陷。集成辅助影像组学与大语言模型模块,实现端到端、可解释的SINS评估。在多中心、多癌种队列(N=482)上验证,TGBP在三类稳定性分层中达90.2%准确率。盲法读者研究(N=30)显示,其在复杂结构特征判断上显著优于医学肿瘤科医生(κ=0.857 vs. 0.570),且总分估计错误率大幅降低(κ=0.625 vs. 0.207),实现专家级机会性筛查的普及。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Routine oncologic computed tomography (CT) presents an ideal opportunity for screening spinal instability, yet prophylactic stabilization windows are frequently missed due to the complex geometric reasoning required by the Spinal Instability Neoplastic Score (SINS). Automating SINS is fundamentally hindered by metastatic osteolysis, which induces topological ambiguity that confounds standard segmentation and black-box AI. We propose Topology-Guided Biomechanical Profiling (TGBP), an auditable white-box framework decoupling anatomical perception from structural reasoning. TGBP anchors SINS assessment on two deterministic geometric innovations: (i) canal-referenced partitioning to resolve posterolateral boundary ambiguity, and (ii) context-aware morphometric normalization via covariance-based oriented bounding boxes (OBB) to quantify vertebral collapse. Integrated with auxiliary radiomic and large language model (LLM) modules, TGBP provides an end-to-end, interpretable SINS evaluation. Validated on a multi-center, multi-cancer cohort ($N=482$), TGBP achieved 90.2\% accuracy in 3-tier stability triage. In a blinded reader study ($N=30$), TGBP significantly outperformed medical oncologists on complex structural features ($κ=0.857$ vs.\ $0.570$) and prevented compounding errors in Total Score estimation ($κ=0.625$ vs.\ $0.207$), democratizing expert-level opportunistic screening.
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