无需标注即可实时评估超声图像质量,靠特征空间对齐与正交子空间实现高精度质检。
Subspace-Guided Semantic and Topological Invariant Registration for Annotation-Free Ultrasound Plane Quality Control

- 通过隐式特征对齐建立查询图像与无监督锚点的层级对应关系。
- 在US4QA和CAMUS数据集上相关性达0.92以上,超越现有方法。
- 适合临床实时质控系统,尤其适用于缺乏标注的超声设备部署场景。
可靠的超声图像质量控制对实时采集引导和回顾性临床审计至关重要,但现有方法严重依赖逐平面标注,或使用易受临床采集中空间形变影响的伪标签。本文提出STRIQ,一种基于配准的框架,将无标注超声平面质量控制重构为子空间引导的一致性度量问题。STRIQ引入潜空间配准对齐器(LRA),在查询图像与由方差谱准则从无标签数据中自主提炼的方差驱动锚点之间建立分层特征空间对应关系,作为结构稳定的原型。为进一步区分解剖平面并抑制负迁移,提出正交知识子空间(OKS)模块,将平面特异性表示分解为相互正交的子空间,实现细粒度专家协作的同时避免跨平面干扰,确保质量度量基于合理的子空间接近性。在自建US4QA和公开CAMUS数据集上的大量实验表明,STRIQ在与临床质量评分的相关性上达到当前最优水平,确立了无标注、实时可靠超声质量控制的新范式。代码已开源:https://github.com/zhcz328/STRIQ。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Reliable quality control (QC) of ultrasound images is essential for both real-time acquisition guidance and retrospective clinical audit, yet existing approaches rely heavily on per-plane annotations, or employ pseudo-labeling prone to systematic bias under spatial deformations inherent in clinical acquisition. We present STRIQ, a registration-driven framework that recasts annotation-free US plane quality control as a subspace-guided consistency measurement problem. Specifically, STRIQ introduces a Latent Registration Aligner (LRA) to establish hierarchical feature space correspondences between query images and variance-driven anchors, which are autonomously distilled from unlabeled data via a variance spectrum criterion to serve as structurally stable prototypes. To further disambiguate anatomical planes and mitigate negative knowledge transfer, we propose an Orthogonal Knowledge Subspace (OKS) module. The OKS decomposes plane-specific representations into mutually orthogonal subspaces, enabling fine-grained expert collaboration while preventing inter-plane interference, ensuring that the quality metric is grounded in principled subspace proximity. Extensive experiments on the in-house US4QA and public CAMUS datasets demonstrate that STRIQ achieves state-of-the-art correlation with clinical quality scores, establishing a new paradigm for annotation-free, real-time reliable ultrasound quality control. Our code is available at https://github.com/zhcz328/STRIQ.
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