用深度学习无监督检测医学影像异常,提升放疗AI流程可靠性
Catching magnetic resonance imaging outliers in artificial intelligence-supported radiotherapy workflows: unsupervised detection and localization of image anomalies using deep learning
- 通过两阶段模型将MRI图像转为离散符号,建模正常分布以发现异常
- 在盆腔和脑部MRI上分别达到0.97和0.81的AUC,误报率低
- 可定位异常区域并可视化,适合用于放疗AI流程的质量控制
人工智能正日益融入放疗工作流程,但其仍易受分布外图像数据影响,可能引发临床任务中的意外行为。针对盆腔磁共振成像(MRI)的深度学习异常检测研究仍不充分,且全自动化可行性缺乏透明评估。本文开发并评估了一种全自动、无监督的盆腔与脑部MRI异常检测框架。该框架在公开数据集上训练:盆腔MRI使用LUND-PROBE,脑部MRI使用IXI、fastMRI和fastMRI+。第一阶段将MRI切片压缩为离散令牌;第二阶段建模正常令牌分布。异常证据通过感知图像差异与基于负对数似然的令牌意外度得分结合计算。在盆腔MRI上测试合成全局异常与真实临床异常,在脑部MRI上测试fastMRI+中临床标注的异常。评估指标包括敏感性、特异性、受试者工作特征曲线下面积(AUC)及保留正常样本中的假阳性行为。框架在隐藏评估队列中表现稳健,盆腔和脑部MRI的AUC分别为0.97(95% CI, 0.95–0.98)和0.81(95% CI, 0.74–0.87)。热图分析显示检测异常与真实位置高度一致,支持定位准确性和可解释性。结果表明,无监督异常检测有望成为放疗工作流中自动化的MRI质量控制层,可透明可视化可能影响下游AI任务的图像区域。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Artificial intelligence is increasingly integrated into radiotherapy workflows, yet such pipelines remain vulnerable to out-of-distribution image data that may introduce unexpected behavior in clinical tasks. Deep learning-based anomaly detection for pelvic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) remains largely unexplored, and transparent evaluation of its feasibility for full automation is limited. We developed and evaluated a fully automated, unsupervised anomaly-detection framework for pelvic and brain MRI. A two-stage framework was trained on reference images from public datasets: LUND-PROBE for pelvic MRI, and IXI, fastMRI, and fastMRI+ for brain MRI. In the first stage, MRI slices were compressed into discrete tokens; in the second, the distribution of normal tokens was modeled. Anomaly evidence was estimated by combining perceptual image differences with token-surprisal scores based on negative log-likelihood. Automated detection was evaluated on pelvic MRI with synthetic global and real clinical anomalies, and on brain MRI with clinically annotated fastMRI+ abnormalities. Sensitivity, specificity, area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC), and false-positive behavior in held-out normal cases were assessed. The framework achieved robust detection across hidden evaluation cohorts, with AUCs of 0.97 (95% CI, 0.95-0.98) and 0.81 (95% CI, 0.74-0.87) for pelvic and brain MRI, respectively. Heatmap analysis showed strong spatial agreement between detected anomalies and ground-truth locations, supporting localization accuracy and interpretability. These results support the potential of unsupervised anomaly detection as an automated MRI quality-control layer for radiotherapy workflows, with transparent visualization of image regions likely to compromise downstream AI-based tasks.
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