arXiv:2605.06160cs.CV2026-05

为医疗影像分割的持续学习建立新基准,涵盖三类临床场景。

Beyond Forgetting in Continual Medical Image Segmentation: A Comprehensive Benchmark Study

论文配图:Beyond Forgetting in Continual Medical Image Segmentation: A Comprehensive Benchmark Study
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  • 定义三类临床驱动的持续学习场景:跨中心、增量解剖结构、跨器官分割。
  • 发现基于重放的方法在稳定与适应性间平衡最佳,但泛化能力仍不足。
  • 适合医疗AI研发者和临床部署人员关注模型长期可靠性问题。

持续学习(CL)对于在临床环境中部署医疗图像分割模型至关重要,因成像领域、解剖目标和诊断任务会随时间演变。然而,持续分割仍面临三大挑战:其一,任务场景尚未充分标准化以匹配真实临床环境;其二,现有研究主要聚焦缓解遗忘,忽视了可塑性等关键属性;其三,缺乏对现有方法进行全面评估的基准工作。为此,本文提出首个持续医疗影像分割的综合基准研究。我们首先定义三种临床驱动的场景:Domain-CL(跨中心域偏移)、Class-CL(增量解剖结构分割)、Organ-CL(跨器官分割),以分别捕捉实际临床中的变化。随后构建评估框架,不仅衡量性能与遗忘,还评估可塑性、前向泛化能力、参数效率及重放负担。通过大量实验对比代表性方法,结果显示:同时满足所有需求仍具挑战;重放类方法在稳定性与可塑性间取得最佳平衡;参数隔离方法虽能有效减少遗忘,但增加模型尺寸;而前向泛化能力仍是该领域的显著研究空白。最后,讨论相关学习范式并展望未来方向。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Continual learning (CL) is essential for deploying medical image segmentation models in clinical environments where imaging domains, anatomical targets, and diagnostic tasks evolve over time. However, continual segmentation still faces three main challenges. First, the scenarios for this task remain insufficiently standardized for real-world clinical settings. Second, existing research has been primarily focused on mitigating forgetting, overlooking the other essential properties such as plasticity. Third, a benchmark work with comprehensive evaluation on existing methods is stll desirable. To address these gaps, we present such benchmark study of continual medical image segmentation. We first define three clinically motivated scenarios, namely Domain-CL, Class-CL, and Organ-CL, to respectively capture the cross-center domain shift, the incremental anatomical structure segmentation, and the cross-organ segmentation. We then introduce an evaluation framework that measures not only general performance and forgetting, but also plasticity, forward generalizability, parameter efficiency, and replay burden. The results, from extensive experiments with representative CL methods, showed that it was still challenging to develop a model that could satisfy all the requirements simultaneously. Nevertheless, these studies also suggested that the replay-based methods achieve the best overall balance between stability and plasticity, the parameter-isolation methods should be effective at reducing forgetting, though at the cost of increased model size, and the forward generalizability remain a significantly understudied aspect of this research field. Finally, we discuss related learning paradigms and outline future directions for continual medical image segmentation.

持续学习医疗影像分割基准

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