arXiv:2605.16427cs.CVcs.AI2026-05被引 1

针对超声心动图分割模型泛化能力差,提出系统评估29种数据增强方法。

EAGT: Echocardiography Augmentation for Generalisability and Transferability

论文配图:EAGT: Echocardiography Augmentation for Generalisability and Transferability
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  • 系统测试29种增强技术及其组合,验证其对跨机构泛化的影响。
  • 几何类增强使跨数据集性能提升显著,强度和伪影类增强常降低效果。
  • 互补性增强组合可改善困难场景的分割表现,适合临床部署应用。

超声心动图分割的深度学习模型在不同机构、设备和人群间泛化能力差,而大规模一致标注数据难以获取。数据增强成本低且广泛应用,但其对超声心动图跨数据集泛化的作用仍不明确。本研究对29种数据增强技术及其成对组合进行了大规模多数据集评估,使用在Unity、CAMUS和EchoNet Dynamic数据集上训练的U-Net进行2D左心室分割。每种增强在多个超参数设置下测试,并通过重复实验评估骰子系数(Dice)和交并比(IoU),在同域与跨域场景中进行独立t检验以量化统计显著性。同域精度已接近饱和,对增强不敏感;而跨域性能差异显著。基于几何的增强(仿射、缩放旋转平移、翻转、透视)带来最大且最稳定的提升,而激进的强度和伪影类变换常导致迁移性能下降。成对组合优于单个增强,尤其当两者互补时,能将部分困难的域偏移情况从差提升至可接受水平。研究结果为设计提升鲁棒性和可迁移性的超声心动图分割增强策略提供实证指导。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Deep learning models for echocardiography segmentation often struggle to generalise across institutions, scanners, and patient populations, where collecting large, consistently annotated datasets is infeasible. Data augmentation is inexpensive and widely used to improve the robustness of deep learning models; however, its role in enhancing cross-dataset generalisability in echocardiography remains insufficiently understood. This study presents a large-scale multi-dataset evaluation of 29 data augmentation techniques and their pairwise combinations for 2D left ventricular segmentation using a U-Net trained on Unity, CAMUS, and EchoNet Dynamic datasets. Each augmentation was explored under several hyperparameter settings and assessed through repeated runs using Dice and IoU in both in-domain and cross-dataset scenarios, with statistical significance quantified via independent t-tests. In-domain accuracy was near-saturated and insensitive to augmentation, whereas cross-dataset performance varied widely. Geometry-based augmentations including affine, shift-scale-rotate, flip, and perspective produced the largest and most consistent gains, while aggressive intensity- and artefact-based transforms often degraded transfer. Moreover, pairwise combinations outperformed individual augmentations mainly when the two transformations were complementary, particularly by improving some difficult domain-shift cases from poor to acceptable performance. These findings provide empirical guidance for designing augmentation policies that improve the robustness and transferability of echocardiography segmentation models.

超声心动图数据增强泛化能力医学图像分割

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