研究单目肠镜下息肉尺寸判断的可靠性,发现模型依赖检查习惯而非真实尺度。
Understanding Model Behavior in Monocular Polyp Sizing

- 通过多数据集跨中心验证,评估不同模型对5毫米以下/以上息肉的分类表现
- 真实尺度信息可提升性能,但现有深度估计与全局校准作用有限
- 分割误差会消除尺度优势,适合评估未来息肉尺寸算法的鲁棒性
准确划分息肉大小对随访决策至关重要,大于5毫米的病灶通常需更密切监测。然而,单目结肠镜缺乏可靠的度量参考。我们对多个公开多中心数据集、模型族及患者分层交叉验证中的二分类息肉大小(≤5毫米 vs. >5毫米)进行了诊断审计。在不同架构和输入模态(包括RGB外观、相对深度、光度)下,模型表现中等一致,表明其依赖与检查行为相关的线索,而非真实度量尺度。通过提供不同粒度的真实尺度信息,我们量化了完美尺度信息带来的潜在提升,并显示当前深度估计和全局校准仅能带来有限改进。进一步证明,在分布外情况下分割错误会消除大部分此类潜力,即使使用理想尺度信息,预测掩码下的表现也仅恢复至基线水平。结果凸显了度量尺度和掩码鲁棒性是两个独立瓶颈,并提供了可复用的评估工具,如理想尺度阶梯、快捷路径划分和掩码替换方法,用于审计未来的息肉尺寸分析流程。代码已开源:https://github.com/anaxqx/polyp-sizing-audit。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Accurate polyp size stratification guides surveillance decisions, with lesions larger than 5 mm typically requiring closer follow-up. However, monocular colonoscopy lacks a reliable metric reference. We present a diagnostic audit of binary polyp size classification (<=5 mm vs. >5 mm) across multiple public multi-center datasets, model families, and patient-stratified cross-validation. Across architectures and input modalities, including RGB appearance, relative depth, and photometry, model performance is moderately consistent, suggesting reliance on cues correlated with examination behavior rather than true metric scales. By providing ground-truth scale at varying granularities, we quantify the potential improvement from perfect scale information and show that current depth estimation and global calibration offer limited gains. We further demonstrate that segmentation errors under distribution shift eliminate most of this potential, with oracle scale under predicted masks recovering only baseline performance. These results highlight metric scale and mask robustness as two independent bottlenecks and provide reusable evaluation tools such as oracle scale ladders, shortcut partitions, and mask substitution for auditing future polyp sizing pipelines. Our code is publicly accessible at https://github.com/anaxqx/polyp-sizing-audit.
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