轻量模型让超声分割在无GPU设备上实时运行,助力基层医疗。
Enabling Real-Time Point-of-Care Ultrasound Segmentation: A GPU-Free Deployment in Resource-Limited Settings

- 改造轻量网络UltraSeg,适配多种超声场景
- 0.13M参数模型在单核CPU上达89.7帧/秒
- 无需GPU即可实现临床级分割,适合资源有限地区
超声成像因成本低、便携而全球广泛应用,但人工智能部署受限于对GPU的依赖,导致“智能”成本高于设备本身。本文系统改造并评估了原用于结肠镜息肉分割的UltraSeg轻量架构,现适用于十大数据集上的床旁超声(POCUS)分割,覆盖乳腺、甲状腺、肾脏、颈动脉、胎儿及小动物肿瘤六类器官。验证结果显示:UltraSeg-130K(0.13M参数)在单核CPU上达89.7 FPS, refurbished移动设备上34.8 FPS;UltraSeg-500K(0.5M参数)在CPU上44.6 FPS,移动设备上16.1 FPS。其平均Dice性能媲美3100万参数UNet,接近1.05亿参数TransUNet,且在外部数据集(UDIAT、DDTI)上表现优异的零样本泛化能力。该工作使无需GPU的高精度分割成为可能,推动AI诊断与超声可及性同步落地。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Ultrasound imaging is the most widely adopted medical modality globally due to its low cost and portability, yet artificial intelligence (AI) deployment remains constrained by reliance on GPU-accelerated models, creating a structural paradox where the cost of "intelligence" exceeds that of the imaging device itself. Here, we present the systematic adaptation and extensive evaluation of UltraSeg, an ultra-lightweight architecture originally developed for colonoscopic polyp segmentation, now engineered for point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) across ten public datasets spanning six anatomical sites (breast, thyroid, kidney, carotid, fetal, and small-animal tumor). We systematically validate both variants in ultrasound domains: UltraSeg-130K (0.13M parameters) achieves 89.7 FPS on single-core CPUs and 34.8 FPS on a refurbished mobile device, while UltraSeg-500K (0.5M parameters) delivers 44.6 FPS on CPU and 16.1 FPS on mobile device. UltraSeg-500K matches or exceeds the Dice performance of the 31M-parameter UNet and approaches 105M-parameter TransUNet in average performance, with superior zero-shot cross-dataset generalization on external validation sets (UDIAT, DDTI). By enabling clinical-grade segmentation without GPU dependency, this work brings AI costs in line with ultrasound accessibility, making advanced diagnostics available in resource-limited settings.
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