arXiv:2603.26186cs.CVcs.AI2026-03

用解剖先验知识分层训练,提升心脏核磁疤痕分割的准确性和可靠性。

Progressive Learning with Anatomical Priors for Reliable Left Atrial Scar Segmentation from Late Gadolinium Enhancement MRI

  • 分三阶段训练:先学左心房腔体,再学解剖结构与疤痕关系,最后精细分割疤痕。
  • 在公开数据集上疤痕分割Dice达0.50,平均表面距离1.80mm,优于单阶段方法。
  • 融合临床解剖先验和空间加权损失,减少标注偏差,适合心脏病影像分析研究者。

心脏磁共振延迟增强(LGE)可无创识别左心房(LA)疤痕,其空间分布与房颤严重程度及复发密切相关。然而,由于对比度低、标注差异大及缺乏解剖约束,自动分割仍具挑战,常导致不可靠预测。为此,我们提出一种受临床流程启发的渐进式学习策略。基于SwinUNETR构建三阶段框架:1)先训练左心房腔体预模型;2)双任务模型学习左心房几何与疤痕模式的空间关系;3)对疤痕进行精细化微调。同时引入解剖感知的空间加权损失,将临床先验知识融入模型,约束疤痕预测在解剖合理的左心房壁区域内,缓解标注偏差。在LASCARQS公开数据集上通过五折交叉验证,左心房分割Dice得分为0.94,左心房疤痕分割取得Dice 0.50, Hausdorff距离11.84 mm,平均表面距离1.80 mm,显著优于单阶段方法(Dice 0.49,Hausdorff 13.02 mm,ASD 1.96 mm)。结果表明,显式嵌入临床解剖先验与诊断推理能有效提升左心房疤痕分割的精度与可靠性。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Cardiac MRI late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) enables non-invasive identification of left atrial (LA) scar, whose spatial distribution is strongly associated with atrial fibrillation (AF) severity and recurrence. However, automatic LA scar segmentation remains challenging due to low contrast, annotation variability, and the lack of anatomical constraints, often leading to non-reliable predictions. Accordingly, our aim was to propose a progressive learning strategy to segment LA scar from LGE images inspired from a clinical workflow. A 3-stage framework based on SwinUNETR was implemented, comprising: 1) a first LA cavity pre-learning model, 2) dual-task model which further learns spatial relationship between LA geometry and scar patterns, and 3) fine-tuning on precise segmentation of the scar. Furthermore, we introduced an anatomy-aware spatially weighted loss that incorporates prior clinical knowledge by constraining scar predictions to anatomically plausible LA wall regions while mitigating annotation bias. Our preliminary results obtained on validation LGE volumes from LASCARQS public dataset after 5-fold cross validation, LA segmentation had Dice score of 0.94, LA scar segmentation achieved Dice score of 0.50, Hausdorff Distance of 11.84 mm, Average Surface Distance of 1.80 mm, outperforming only a one-stage scar segmentation with 0.49, 13.02 mm, 1.96 mm, repectively. By explicitly embedding clinical anatomical priors and diagnostic reasoning into deep learning, the proposed approach improved the accuracy and reliability of LA scar segmentation from LGE, revealing the importance of clinically informed model design.

医学图像分割解剖先验心脏MRI深度学习

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