arXiv:2604.04470eess.IVcs.AI2026-04被引 1

无需密集标注,通过生成式后验优化实现乳腺微钙化精准分割。

MC-GenRef: Annotation-free mammography microcalcification segmentation with generative posterior refinement

  • 用物理合成的微钙化图像替代真实标注,构建无密集标签训练数据
  • 测试时通过生成模型迭代优化分割结果,提升召回率与边界精度
  • 在跨机构数据上表现稳定,适合临床漏检敏感场景

微钙化分析在乳腺癌筛查中至关重要,因其集群点状特征可能是恶性早期信号,但密集分割仍具挑战:目标极小且稀疏,密集像素级标注成本高且模糊,跨机构差异常导致致密组织中纹理误判和漏检。本文提出MC-GenRef,一种完全无需密集标注的框架,结合高保真合成监督与测试时生成后验精炼(TT-GPR)。训练阶段使用真实负样本作为背景,通过轻量级图像形成模型注入符合物理规律的微钙化模式,实现无真实标注的图像-掩码对。仅依赖此类合成数据,训练基础分割器与种子条件的修正流生成器作为可控生成先验。推理时,TT-GPR将分割视为近似后验推断:从当前预测提取稀疏种子,生成一致的生成投影,经冻结分割器转换为病例特异性伪标签,并通过重叠一致与边缘感知正则化迭代优化得分。在INbreast数据集上,合成初始化达到最佳Dice分数,而TT-GPR进一步提升召回率与假阴性率(FNR),并保持良好类别平衡(Bal.Acc., G-Mean)。在外部私有Yonsei队列(n=50)上,TT-GPR持续改善合成初始模型在跨机构迁移下的表现,显著提高Dice与召回率,同时降低FNR。结果表明,测试时生成后验精炼是减少微钙化漏检、提升鲁棒性的有效路径,无需额外真实密集标注。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Microcalcification (MC) analysis is clinically important in screening mammography because clustered puncta can be an early sign of malignancy, yet dense MC segmentation remains challenging: targets are extremely small and sparse, dense pixel-level labels are expensive and ambiguous, and cross-site shift often induces texture-driven false positives and missed puncta in dense tissue. We propose MC-GenRef, a real dense-label-free framework that combines high-fidelity synthetic supervision with test-time generative posterior refinement (TT-GPR). During training, real negative mammogram patches are used as backgrounds, and physically plausible MC patterns are injected through a lightweight image formation model with local contrast modulation and blur, yielding exact image-mask pairs without real dense annotation. Using only these synthetic labeled pairs, MC-GenRef trains a base segmentor and a seed-conditioned rectified-flow (RF) generator that serves as a controllable generative prior. During inference, TT-GPR treats segmentation as approximate posterior inference: it derives a sparse seed from the current prediction, forms seed-consistent RF projections, converts them into case-specific surrogate targets through the frozen segmentor, and iteratively refines the logits with overlap-consistent and edge-aware regularization. On INbreast, the synthetic-only initializer achieved the best Dice without real dense annotations, while TT-GPR improved miss-sensitive performance to Recall and FNR, with strong class-balanced behavior (Bal.Acc., G-Mean). On an external private Yonsei cohort ( n=50 ), TT-GPR consistently improved the synthetic-only initializer under cross-site shift, increasing Dice and Recall while reducing FNR. These results suggest that test-time generative posterior refinement is a practical route to reduce MC misses and improve robustness without additional real dense labeling.

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