arXiv:2607.04912cs.CVcs.AI2026-07

用动态影像建模预测乳腺癌化疗反应,性能显著优于现有方法。

Graph Representation Learning of Longitudinal Medical Imaging Trajectories for Treatment Response Prediction

论文配图:Graph Representation Learning of Longitudinal Medical Imaging Trajectories for Treatment Response Prediction
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  • 构建3D时空图网络,融合多时点影像的动态关系与自监督学习。
  • 在585例患者数据上,分类准确率大幅超越视觉与自监督基线模型。
  • 适用于个性化治疗决策,尤其适合关注纵向医学影像分析的研究者。

在乳腺癌患者中,病理完全缓解(pCR)已被证实是长期预后的临床有意义替代指标。尽管常采用新辅助化疗(NACT),但治疗反应个体差异大,亟需精准预测模型。为此,我们提出一种基于影像的3D时空框架,融合先进图神经网络与时间点间关系建模,并设计三种新颖的自监督轨迹表示学习目标。在公开的ISPY-2数据集共585名患者上,实验表明该方法在多个分类指标上显著优于视觉与自监督学习基线。研究还系统评估了每例患者可用的DCE-MRI时间点数量及扫描间隔时间差的影响。本工作确立了乳腺癌pCR预测的新基准,且将在发表后开源代码与PyPI数据处理工具包,推动可复现的开放科研。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

In patients with breast cancer, pathological complete response (pCR) has been established as a clinically meaningful surrogate marker for long-term outcomes. While commonly treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT), effective treatment decision-making remains challenging, as therapeutic response can vary substantially across patients, calling for predictive models capable of accurately estimating individualized treatment response. To address this, we propose an imaging-based 3D spatio-temporal framework for treatment response prediction that integrates a state-of-the-art graph neural network with relational modeling of temporal interactions across timepoints alongside three novel complementary self-supervised treatment trajectory representation learning objectives. Experiments across a cohort of 585 patients from the public ISPY-2 dataset demonstrate that our method substantially outperforms both vision and self-supervised learning baselines across several classification metrics. Alongside establishing a breast cancer pCR prediction benchmark, we include a principled ablation of our method and further introduce and empirically assess the impact of the available number of DCE-MRI timepoints per patient trajectory and the inclusion of inter-scan time-differences. Overall, our study substantiates the utility of clinically meaningful longitudinal medical imagaging modeling for predicting NACT-induced pCR. We will publicly share our code repository and a user-friendly PyPI library for dataset curation upon publication, effectively promoting reproducible open-source research.

乳腺癌影像建模图神经网络治疗预测

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