让医学影像分割的不确定性更可解释,符合人类对模糊性的直观判断。
Principle-Guided Supervision for Interpretable Uncertainty in Medical Image Segmentation

- 基于三个可解释原则设计监督机制,引导不确定性空间分布
- 在三个数据集上提升不确定性与图像模糊源的一致性
- 适合医疗影像领域关注模型可信度的研究者
不确定性量化通过表征预测可靠性来补充模型输出,对医疗影像分割等高风险决策至关重要。然而,现有方法多将不确定性简化为标量置信度,其空间分布缺乏语义约束。本文聚焦不确定性可解释性,即估计的不确定性是否符合人类对模糊来源的直观理解。我们识别出三个感知一致原则:(1) 结构间图像对比度,(2) 图像退化严重程度,(3) 解剖结构几何复杂性。据此提出基于证据学习的原则引导不确定性监督框架(PriUS),在训练中显式施加对应监督目标。进一步引入定量指标,衡量预测不确定性与诱发模糊的图像属性之间的一致性。在ACDC、ISIC和WHS数据集上的实验表明,相比现有最优方法,PriUS生成的不确定性估计更具一致性,同时保持了竞争力的分割性能。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Uncertainty quantification complements model predictions by characterizing their reliability, which is essential for high-stakes decision making such as medical image segmentation. However, most existing methods reduce uncertainty to a scalar confidence estimate, leaving its spatial distribution semantically underconstrained. In this work, we focus on uncertainty interpretability, namely, whether estimated uncertainty behaves in a human-understandable manner with respect to sources of ambiguity. We identify three perception-aligned principles requiring the spatial distribution of uncertainty to reflect: (1) image contrast between structures, (2) severity of image corruption, and (3) geometric complexity in anatomical structures. Accordingly, we develop a principle-guided uncertainty supervision framework (PriUS) based on evidential learning, in which the corresponding supervision objectives are explicitly enforced during training. We further introduce quantitative metrics to measure the consistency between predicted uncertainty and image attributes that induce ambiguity. Experiments on ACDC, ISIC, and WHS datasets showed that, compared with state-of-the-art methods, PriUS produced more consistent uncertainty estimates while maintaining competitive segmentation performance.
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