arXiv:2603.28110cs.CV2026-03被引 10

用轮廓信息指导特征融合,提升心脏超声分割边界精度。

Contour-Guided Query-Based Feature Fusion for Boundary-Aware and Generalizable Cardiac Ultrasound Segmentation

  • 通过轮廓生成可学习查询,引导特征精修。
  • 在CAMUS和CardiacNet数据集上边界精度显著提升。
  • 适合需要高精度边界的医疗图像分割场景。

准确的心脏超声分割对智能医疗系统中心室功能评估至关重要。但超声图像因对比度低、斑点噪声、边界不规则及设备与人群间域偏移而具挑战性。现有方法多依赖外观驱动学习,难以保持边界精度与结构一致性。为此,我们提出轮廓引导的查询精炼网络(CGQR-Net),将多分辨率特征与轮廓导出的结构先验结合。采用HRNet骨干网络保留高分辨率空间细节并捕获多尺度上下文。首先生成粗分割,从中提取解剖轮廓并编码为可学习查询嵌入。这些轮廓引导的查询通过交叉注意力与融合特征图交互,实现结构感知精修,改善边界划分并减少噪声伪影。采用双头监督策略联合优化分割与边界预测,强化结构一致性。在CAMUS数据集上评估,并在CardiacNet数据集上验证跨数据集泛化能力。实验结果表明,分割精度提升,边界精度增强,且在不同成像条件下表现稳健。这证明了将轮廓级结构信息与特征级表示融合的有效性。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Accurate cardiac ultrasound segmentation is essential for reliable assessment of ventricular function in intelligent healthcare systems. However, echocardiographic images are challenging due to low contrast, speckle noise, irregular boundaries, and domain shifts across devices and patient populations. Existing methods, largely based on appearance-driven learning, often fail to preserve boundary precision and structural consistency under these conditions. To address these issues, we propose a Contour-Guided Query Refinement Network (CGQR-Net) for boundary-aware cardiac ultrasound segmentation. The framework integrates multi-resolution feature representations with contour-derived structural priors. An HRNet backbone preserves high-resolution spatial details while capturing multi-scale context. A coarse segmentation is first generated, from which anatomical contours are extracted and encoded into learnable query embeddings. These contour-guided queries interact with fused feature maps via cross-attention, enabling structure-aware refinement that improves boundary delineation and reduces noise artifacts. A dual-head supervision strategy jointly optimizes segmentation and boundary prediction to enforce structural consistency. The proposed method is evaluated on the CAMUS dataset and further validated on the CardiacNet dataset to assess cross-dataset generalization. Experimental results demonstrate improved segmentation accuracy, enhanced boundary precision, and robust performance across varying imaging conditions. These results highlight the effectiveness of integrating contour-level structural information with feature-level representations for reliable cardiac ultrasound segmentation.

超声分割边界感知特征融合医疗影像

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