arXiv:2605.12140cs.CV2026-05中稿 · ed

针对心脏超声点追踪,提出仅用精细阶段的新型模型,提升定位精度和轨迹稳定性。

EchoTracker2: Enhancing Myocardial Point Tracking by Modeling Local Motion

论文配图:EchoTracker2: Enhancing Myocardial Point Tracking by Modeling Local Motion
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  • 抛弃传统两阶段粗到精设计,仅用精细阶段结合时空上下文进行追踪。
  • 在多个数据集上定位误差降低6.5%,轨迹中位误差减少12.2%。
  • 特别适合心脏运动分析,对临床影像评估的可重复性有明显提升。

心肌点追踪(MPT)作为超声心动图中运动估计的新兴方向,得益于通用点追踪方法的发展。然而,心肌运动与自然视频中的运动本质不同:其受生理约束,具有时空连续性,运动轨迹通常局部受限,即使组织发生显著形变。基于此特性,我们重新审视了MPT的架构设计,发现常见的两阶段粗到精流程在此任务中可能多余。本文提出仅含精细阶段的架构——EchoTracker2,通过融合像素级特征与局部时空上下文,并引入长程联合时间推理机制,实现鲁棒追踪。在分布内、分布外(OOD)及公开合成数据集上的实验表明,相比领域专用的SOTA模型,本模型定位精度提升6.5%,中位轨迹误差降低12.2%;相较最佳通用点追踪方法,分别提升2.0%和5.3%。此外,EchoTracker2与专家标注的全局纵向应变(GLS)一致性更高,显著改善了测试-再测试的重现性。源代码将发布于:https://github.com/riponazad/ptecho。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Myocardial point tracking (MPT) has recently emerged as a promising direction for motion estimation in echocardiography, driven by advances in general-purpose point tracking methods. However, myocardial motion fundamentally differs from motion encountered in natural videos, as it arises from physiologically constrained deformation that is spatially and temporally continuous throughout the cardiac cycle. Consequently, motion trajectories typically remain locally confined despite substantial tissue deformation. Motivated by these properties, we revisit the architectural design for MPT and find that coarse initialization in commonly used two-stage coarse-to-fine architectures may be unnecessary in this domain. In this work, we propose a fine-stage-only architecture, \textbf{EchoTracker2}, which enriches pixel-precise features with local spatiotemporal context and integrates them with long-range joint temporal reasoning for robust tracking. Experimental results across in-distribution, out-of-distribution (OOD), and public synthetic datasets show that our model improves position accuracy by $6.5\%$ and reduces median trajectory error by $12.2\%$ relative to a domain-specific state-of-the-art (SOTA) model. Compared to the best general-purpose point tracking method, the improvements are $2.0\%$ and $5.3\%$, respectively. Moreover, EchoTracker2 shows better agreement with expert-derived global longitudinal strain (GLS) and enhances test-rest reproducibility. Source code will be available at: https://github.com/riponazad/ptecho.

医学图像点追踪超声心动图时空建模

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