arXiv:2603.18616cs.CV2026-03

对比CNN与Transformer在腹部多器官分割中的表现,发现传统CNN仍更优。

Benchmarking CNN-based Models against Transformer-based Models for Abdominal Multi-Organ Segmentation on the RATIC Dataset

  • 用相同条件对比CNN与三种混合Transformer模型在腹部CT上的分割性能。
  • 基于206例多中心数据,CNN模型SegResNet总体表现最佳,平均DSC更高。
  • 尽管Transformer收敛快,但小样本异构数据下仍不如优化过的CNN模型。

腹部CT中多器官精确分割对辅助诊断和治疗至关重要。尽管卷积神经网络(CNN)长期作为医学图像分割的标准方法,近年来基于Transformer的架构因其建模长距离依赖的能力受到关注。本研究系统性地将三种混合Transformer模型UNETR、SwinUNETR和UNETR++与强基准模型SegResNet在异质的RATIC数据集上进行体积多器官分割的对比。该数据集包含来自全球23家机构的206例标注CT扫描,覆盖五个腹部器官。所有模型在相同的预处理和训练条件下训练与评估,以骰子相似系数(DSC)为主要指标。结果显示,基于CNN的SegResNet在所有器官上均表现最优,优于所有混合Transformer模型。在这些Transformer模型中,UNETR++表现最接近,而UNETR展现出显著更快的收敛速度,所需训练迭代次数更少。这些发现表明,在小到中等规模的异质数据集上,经过良好优化的CNN架构仍具高度竞争力,可能优于混合Transformer设计。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Accurate multi-organ segmentation in abdominal CT scans is essential for computer-aided diagnosis and treatment. While convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have long been the standard approach in medical image segmentation, transformer-based architectures have recently gained attention due to their ability to model long-range dependencies. In this study, we systematically benchmark the three hybrid transformer-based models UNETR, SwinUNETR, and UNETR++ against a strong CNN baseline, SegResNet, for volumetric multi-organ segmentation on the heterogeneous RATIC dataset. The dataset comprises 206 annotated CT scans from 23 institutions worldwide, covering five abdominal organs. All models were trained and evaluated under identical preprocessing and training conditions using the Dice Similarity Coefficient (DSC) as the primary metric. The results show that the CNN-based SegResNet achieves the highest overall performance, outperforming all hybrid transformer-based models across all organs. Among the transformer-based approaches, UNETR++ delivers the most competitive results, while UNETR demonstrates notably faster convergence with fewer training iterations. These findings suggest that, for small- to medium-sized heterogeneous datasets, well-optimized CNN architectures remain highly competitive and may outperform hybrid transformer-based designs.

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