arXiv:2604.05409cs.CV2026-04

基于概率排名稳定性的医学图像分割新方法,无需目标域信息

CRISP: Rank-Guided Iterative Squeezing for Robust Medical Image Segmentation under Domain Shift

  • 利用正样本区域概率排名稳定性设计无参数、模型无关的分割框架
  • 在多中心心脏MRI和肺血管分割中,对齐不同分布偏移的性能提升达38.9%
  • 适合临床部署中需应对未知分布变化的医学图像分析场景

医学影像中的分布偏移仍是医疗AI临床应用的核心瓶颈。若不解决,会导致未见环境下的性能严重下降并加剧健康不平等。现有领域自适应方法受限于通过模拟偏移或伪监督穷尽预设可能性,难以应对开放且不可预测的真实世界中近乎无限的分布偏移。为此,我们提出“正区域排名稳定性”这一经验规律:在分布偏移下,正样本体素预测概率的相对排名保持稳定。基于此,我们提出CRISP——首个基于排名而非概率进行分割的无参数、模型无关框架,无需目标域信息。通过潜在特征扰动模拟模型在分布偏移下的行为,发现两类稳定模式:始终高概率区域(根据原理为注定的正例)与始终低概率区域(可安全归为负例)。据此构建高精度(HP)与高召回(HR)先验,并在扰动下递归优化。设计迭代训练框架,使HP与HR逐步‘挤压’至最终分割结果。在多中心心脏MRI与基于CT的肺血管分割上大量评估表明,CRISP具有显著鲁棒性,显著优于当前最优方法,在多中心、人口统计学及模态偏移下,平均表面距离HD95分别降低0.14(7.0%提升)、1.90(13.1%提升)和8.39(38.9%提升)像素。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Distribution shift in medical imaging remains a central bottleneck for the clinical translation of medical AI. Failure to address it can lead to severe performance degradation in unseen environments and exacerbate health inequities. Existing methods for domain adaptation are inherently limited by exhausting predefined possibilities through simulated shifts or pseudo-supervision. Such strategies struggle in the open-ended and unpredictable real world, where distribution shifts are effectively infinite. To address this challenge, we introduce an empirical law called ``Rank Stability of Positive Regions'', which states that the relative rank of predicted probabilities for positive voxels remains stable under distribution shift. Guided by this principle, we propose CRISP, a parameter-free and model-agnostic framework requiring no target-domain information. CRISP is the first framework to make segmentation based on rank rather than probabilities. CRISP simulates model behavior under distribution shift via latent feature perturbation, where voxel probability rankings exhibit two stable patterns: regions that consistently retain high probabilities (destined positives according to the principle) and those that remain low-probability (can be safely classified as negatives). Based on these patterns, we construct high-precision (HP) and high-recall (HR) priors and recursively refine them under perturbation. We then design an iterative training framework, making HP and HR progressively ``squeeze'' to the final segmentation. Extensive evaluations on multi-center cardiac MRI and CT-based lung vessel segmentation demonstrate CRISP's superior robustness, significantly outperforming state-of-the-art methods with striking HD95 reductions of up to 0.14 (7.0\% improvement), 1.90 (13.1\% improvement), and 8.39 (38.9\% improvement) pixels across multi-center, demographic, and modality shifts, respectively.

医学图像领域自适应分割鲁棒性

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