arXiv:2606.25508cs.CV2026-06

用因果推理提升病理组织分割精度,解决伪标签噪声问题。

C2RM-Seg: Causal Counterfactual Reasoning with Structural-Semantic Priors for Weakly Supervised Histopathological Tissue Segmentation

论文配图:C2RM-Seg: Causal Counterfactual Reasoning with Structural-Semantic Priors for Weakly Supervised Histopathological Tissue Segmentation
图 1 · 摘自论文原文
  • 通过因果反事实推理分离特征因素,生成与组织形态一致的注意力图。
  • 在两个公开数据集上达到当前最佳分割效果,边界保持更精准。
  • 适合关注弱监督医学图像分割与因果建模的研究者。

病理组织分割对辅助诊断至关重要,但弱监督方法常因类激活图(CAM)生成的伪标签存在噪声而受限。现有CAM方法多依赖染色外观线索而非真实因果组织结构,导致定位错误和结构不一致。为此,我们提出C²RM-Seg,一种两阶段框架,结合因果伪标签精炼与结构感知语义增强。分类阶段引入因果反事实推理模块(C²RM),通过学习的因果结构矩阵分解特征并进行反事实干预,抑制混淆上下文,生成形态对齐的CAM。分割阶段设计双路径结构-语义架构,融合ResNeSt的细粒度结构特征与冻结DINOV3基础模型的全局语义先验,跨路径门控机制基于局部结构线索自适应调节语义注入,保障边界保真度。为进一步缓解残余伪标签噪声,提出不确定性门控边界损失(UGM),根据预测不确定性动态平衡边界约束与置信度学习。在两个公开病理组织数据集上的大量实验表明,C²RM-Seg实现当前最优性能。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Histopathological tissue segmentation is essential for computer-aided diagnosis, yet weakly supervised methods often suffer from noisy pseudo-labels generated by Class Activation Mapping (CAM). Existing CAM approaches tend to focus on staining-driven appearance cues rather than true causal tissue morphology, resulting in spurious localization and poor structural consistency. To address this issue, we propose C$^2$RM-Seg, a two-stage framework that integrates causal pseudo-label refinement with structure-aware semantic enhancement. For classification, we introduce a Causal Counterfactual Reasoning Module (C$^2$RM) that decomposes features into latent factors and performs counterfactual intervention via a learned causal structure matrix, suppressing confounding context and producing morphology-aligned CAMs. For segmentation, we design a Dual-Path Structural-Semantic Architecture that combines fine-grained structural features from ResNeSt with global semantic priors from a frozen DINOV3 foundation model. A cross-path gating mechanism adaptively regulates semantic injection using local structural cues to preserve boundary fidelity. To further mitigate residual pseudo-label noise, we propose an Uncertainty-Gated Margin (UGM) loss, which dynamically balances margin enforcement and confidence learning based on prediction uncertainty. Extensive experiments on two public histopathological tissue datasets show that C$^2$RM-Seg achieves state-of-the-art performance.

病理分割因果推理弱监督医学图像

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