arXiv:2603.28057cs.LGeess.IV2026-03

将肿瘤生长物理模型嵌入神经网络,提升医学影像AI的可解释性与可信度。

Physics-Embedded Feature Learning for AI in Medical Imaging

  • 在CNN中间特征层内嵌反应扩散模型,融合肿瘤生长动力学
  • 同时学习分类、肿瘤密度场及扩散/生长速率等生物物理参数
  • 结果优于多个主流模型,且参数符合医学常识,适合临床场景

深度学习模型在智能医疗中表现优异,但多数方法为黑箱,忽略肿瘤生长的物理过程,影响可解释性、鲁棒性和临床信任。为此,我们提出PhysNet,一种将肿瘤生长动力学直接嵌入卷积神经网络(CNN)特征学习过程的物理嵌入式深度学习框架。与仅在输出层施加物理约束的传统方法不同,PhysNet在ResNet主干网络的中间特征表示中嵌入反应扩散模型,实现多类肿瘤分类的同时,联合学习潜在肿瘤密度场、其时间演化以及生物意义明确的物理参数,包括肿瘤扩散率和生长率,通过端到端训练完成。纯数据驱动模型即使准确率高或采用集成策略,也无法保证预测的物理一致性或揭示肿瘤行为机制。在大规模脑部MRI数据集上的实验表明,PhysNet优于多个先进深度学习基线模型,包括MobileNetV2、VGG16、VGG19和集成模型,取得更高的分类准确率和F1分数。此外,PhysNet生成具有可解释性的潜在表示和符合医学知识的生物物理参数,证明物理嵌入表征学习是构建更可信、更具临床意义医疗AI系统的可行路径。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Deep learning (DL) models have achieved strong performance in an intelligence healthcare setting, yet most existing approaches operate as black boxes and ignore the physical processes that govern tumor growth, limiting interpretability, robustness, and clinical trust. To address this limitation, we propose PhysNet, a physics-embedded DL framework that integrates tumor growth dynamics directly into the feature learning process of a convolutional neural network (CNN). Unlike conventional physics-informed methods that impose physical constraints only at the output level, PhysNet embeds a reaction diffusion model of tumor growth within intermediate feature representations of a ResNet backbone. The architecture jointly performs multi-class tumor classification while learning a latent tumor density field, its temporal evolution, and biologically meaningful physical parameters, including tumor diffusion and growth rates, through end-to-end training. This design is necessary because purely data-driven models, even when highly accurate or ensemble-based, cannot guarantee physically consistent predictions or provide insight into tumor behavior. Experimental results on a large brain MRI dataset demonstrate that PhysNet outperforms multiple state-of-the-art DL baselines, including MobileNetV2, VGG16, VGG19, and ensemble models, achieving superior classification accuracy and F1-score. In addition to improved performance, PhysNet produces interpretable latent representations and learned bio-physical parameters that align with established medical knowledge, highlighting physics-embedded representation learning as a practical pathway toward more trustworthy and clinically meaningful medical AI systems.

医学影像物理嵌入可解释性肿瘤建模

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