arXiv:2606.26898cs.CVcs.LG2026-06

用合成数据辅助自动分割猴脑纤维束,减少人工标注量3倍。

Tractography-Driven Synthetic Data Generation for Fiber Bundle Segmentation in Tracer Histology

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  • 用离体dMRI轨迹作为先验生成2D图像块,模拟真实纤维纹理。
  • 在未见大脑上实现更好泛化,纤维密度差异下表现更稳定。
  • 仅需真实数据的1/3标注量,适合标注成本高的神经解剖研究。

扩散磁共振成像(dMRI) tractography 可无创重建白质通路,但其精度受限于轴突组织的间接、低分辨率测量。非人灵长类动物的示踪注射研究为验证 dMRI tractography 提供了金标准,但需耗时的人工标注纤维束于组织切片。本文提出一种基于合成数据增强的自动化猕猴示踪组织学纤维束分割框架。方法利用离体 dMRI tractography 作为生成先验,合成 2D 图像块用于训练,提供足够真实的前景纹理,并与块面照片背景结合,通过领域随机化增强多样性。使用混合真实与合成图像块训练 2D U-Net。在保留大脑上的实验表明,相比仅用真实数据训练,该方法在跨大脑和不同纤维束密度条件下均表现出更强泛化能力。仅用合成数据训练则性能差,凸显真实监督的必要性。总体而言,本方法性能接近当前最优水平,同时仅需约1/3的手动标注数据。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Diffusion MRI (dMRI) tractography enables non-invasive reconstruction of white-matter pathways, but its accuracy is fundamentally limited by indirect, low-resolution measurements of axonal organization. Tracer injection studies in non-human primates provide a gold standard for validating dMRI tractography. This, however, requires time-consuming manual annotation of fiber bundles in histology sections. We propose a synthetic-data augmented framework for automated fiber bundle segmentation in macaque tracer histology. Our approach uses ex vivo dMRI tractography as a generative prior to synthesize 2D image patches for training. This provides us with sufficiently realistic foreground texture, which we compose with backgrounds from blockface photos and diversify via domain randomization. A 2D U-Net is trained on mixed real and synthetic patches. Experiments on held-out brains demonstrate improved generalization across brains and fiber bundle densities compared to training with real data only. Training with synthetic data only leads to poor performance, underscoring the need for real supervision. Overall, our approach achieves performance comparable to the state-of-the-art while requiring 3x less manually annotated data.

纤维束分割合成数据神经影像深度学习

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