arXiv:2604.06583cs.CV2026-04中稿 · ICPR 2026

针对OCTA图像血管稀疏问题,提出关注血管结构的自监督学习方法。

VAMAE: Vessel-Aware Masked Autoencoders for OCT Angiography

论文配图:VAMAE: Vessel-Aware Masked Autoencoders for OCT Angiography
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  • 用血管密度和骨架信息引导掩码,聚焦血管区域
  • 多目标重建提升外观、结构与拓扑特征捕捉能力
  • 在少标注场景下表现优异,适合医学图像分析

光学相干断层扫描血管成像(OCTA)可无创显示视网膜微血管,但因血管结构稀疏且拓扑约束强,学习鲁棒表征仍具挑战。现有自监督方法如掩码自编码器多针对密集自然图像,依赖均匀掩码与像素级重建,难以有效捕捉血管几何特性。本文提出VAMAE,一种面向OCTA图像的血管感知自编码框架。该方法引入解剖学先验的掩码策略,利用血管度与骨架线索强化血管丰富区域的掩码,促使模型关注血管连通性与分支模式。同时,预训练目标包含多个互补重建任务,使模型能同时学习外观、结构与拓扑信息。我们在OCTA-500基准上对多种血管分割任务进行评估,结果表明,血管感知掩码与多目标重建相比标准掩码自编码基线均有持续提升,尤其在标签有限场景下表现更优,证明几何感知自监督学习在OCTA分析中的潜力。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) provides non-invasive visualization of retinal microvasculature, but learning robust representations remains challenging due to sparse vessel structures and strong topological constraints. Many existing self-supervised learning approaches, including masked autoencoders, are primarily designed for dense natural images and rely on uniform masking and pixel-level reconstruction, which may inadequately capture vascular geometry. We propose VAMAE, a vessel-aware masked autoencoding framework for self-supervised pretraining on OCTA images. The approach incorporates anatomically informed masking that emphasizes vessel-rich regions using vesselness and skeleton-based cues, encouraging the model to focus on vascular connectivity and branching patterns. In addition, the pretraining objective includes reconstructing multiple complementary targets, enabling the model to capture appearance, structural, and topological information. We evaluate the proposed pretraining strategy on the OCTA-500 benchmark for several vessel segmentation tasks under varying levels of supervision. The results indicate that vessel-aware masking and multi-target reconstruction provide consistent improvements over standard masked autoencoding baselines, particularly in limited-label settings, suggesting the potential of geometry-aware self-supervised learning for OCTA analysis.

OCTA自监督学习血管分割

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