arXiv:2606.20108cs.CVcs.LG2026-06中稿 · MIDL 2026被引 2

无需标注,用解剖先验实现眼底图像质量可解释评估

EFIQA: Explainable Fundus Image Quality Assessment via Anatomical Priors

论文配图:EFIQA: Explainable Fundus Image Quality Assessment via Anatomical Priors
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  • 通过解剖先验学习正常应有结构,而非依赖人工标注的质量标签
  • 在多个外部数据集上优于监督方法,且生成空间级质量图
  • 适合需要可解释性的眼底病筛查与临床部署场景

图像质量控制对下游应用至关重要。基于深度学习的质量评估方法通常在特定数据集的标签上训练分类器,存在两大局限:(1) 泛化能力受限于训练集的标注标准;(2) 无法提供质量退化位置的空间反馈,缺乏可解释性。本文提出EFIQA框架,无需质量相关监督,且设计上生成空间质量图。不同于从人工标注中学习“什么是退化”,EFIQA通过利用解剖先验学习“应该存在什么”。针对眼底摄影,我们采用两阶段方法:首先通过掩码解剖结构修复训练无监督异常检测器,识别血管缺失区域;然后将此先验知识蒸馏到一个轻量适配器中,将冻结的基础模型特征映射为精确质量图。外部数据集评估显示,该无标签方法仅需极少适配即在不同质量标准的基准上表现更优,兼具更高性能与可解释性,展现出实际应用潜力。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Image quality control is vital for a wide range of downstream applications. Deep learning-based image quality assessment methods typically train classifiers on dataset-specific quality labels, inheriting two limitations: (1) generalization is tied to the labeling criteria of the training set and (2) these methods cannot provide spatial feedback on where the quality is degraded, lacking explainability. In this work, we propose EFIQA, a framework that requires no quality-related supervision and produces spatial quality maps by design. Rather than learning ``what is degradation" from human-annotated labels, EFIQA learns ``what should be there" by leveraging anatomical priors. For fundus photography, we instantiate this as a two-stage approach, by first training an unsupervised anomaly detector via masked anatomical inpainting to identify regions of missing vasculature, and then distilling this prior knowledge into a shallow adapter mapping features of a frozen foundation model to precise quality maps. External-dataset evaluation demonstrates that this label-free approach with minimal adaptation achieves better performance and explainability compared with supervised methods across benchmarks with different quality criteria, highlighting its potential for real-world applications.

图像质量评估可解释性眼底影像无监督学习

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