arXiv:2605.02707cs.CVcs.AI2026-05

让AI解释眼底OCT影像时更懂解剖结构,提升临床可信度。

SAIL: Structure-Aware Interpretable Learning for Anatomy-Aligned Post-hoc Explanations in OCT

论文配图:SAIL: Structure-Aware Interpretable Learning for Anatomy-Aligned Post-hoc Explanations in OCT
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  • 在特征层融入眼底解剖先验,融合语义信息生成解释
  • 在多个OCT数据集上显著提升解释图的清晰度与解剖一致性
  • 适合需要可解释性AI的医疗影像诊断场景

光学相干断层成像(OCT)是视网膜疾病诊断的核心影像技术,提供高分辨率视网膜分层图像。尽管深度学习在基于OCT的视网膜疾病检测中已达到专家水平,但其“黑箱”特性阻碍了临床应用和监管审批,可解释性至关重要。现有后处理可解释性方法常无法精准勾勒病灶结构、忽略解剖边界或抑制噪声,降低解释可信度。为此,我们提出结构感知可解释学习(SAIL)框架,在表示层整合视网膜解剖先验,并通过融合设计将其与语义特征耦合。该方法无需修改标准后处理解释方法,即可生成更清晰、更符合解剖结构的归因图。在多个OCT数据集上的综合实验表明,本方法持续提升可解释性,生成具有临床意义且解剖对齐的解释。消融研究进一步表明,强可解释性需同时具备结构先验与语义特征,且二者合理融合至关重要。结果凸显结构感知表示是实现可靠OCT可解释性的关键步骤。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Optical coherence tomography (OCT), a commonly used retinal imaging modality, plays a central role in retinal disease diagnosis by providing high-resolution visualization of retinal layers. While deep learning (DL) has achieved expert-level accuracy in OCT-based retinal disease detection, its "black box" nature poses challenges for clinical adoption, where explainability is essential for clinical trust and regulatory approval. Existing post-hoc explainable AI (XAI) methods often struggle to delineate fine-grained lesion structures, respect anatomical boundaries, or suppress noise, limiting the trustworthiness of their explanations. To bridge these gaps, we propose a Structure-Aware Interpretable Learning (SAIL) framework that integrates retinal anatomical priors at the representation level and couples them with semantic features via a fusion design. Without modifying standard post-hoc explainability methods, this representation yields sharper and more anatomically aligned attribution maps. Comprehensive experiments on diverse OCT datasets demonstrate that our structure-aware method consistently enhances interpretability, producing clinically meaningful and anatomy-aware explanations. Ablation studies further show that strong interpretability requires both structural priors and semantic features, and that properly fusing the two is critical to achieve the best explanation quality. Together, these results highlight structure-aware representations as a key step toward reliable explainability in OCT.

可解释性医学影像OCT解剖先验

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