用几何拓扑特征代替强度信息,有效降低脑动脉瘤检测假阳性率。
Shape Over Intensity: Directional Topological Encoding for False Positive Reduction in Intracranial Aneurysm Detection

- 基于方向性拓扑编码SECT,捕捉血管三维几何结构
- 小病灶(<3mm)检测敏感度达78.5%,AUC达0.943
- 对不同扫描仪兼容性强,适合临床部署的模型后处理
从CT血管造影(CTA)中自动检测颅内动脉瘤(IAs)受高假阳性率严重制约。卷积神经网络(CNN)依赖局部像素强度,导致囊状动脉瘤与血管分叉混淆,尤其在小于3毫米的小病灶上,检测敏感度低于60%。本文提出一种即插即用的拓扑感知假阳性抑制框架,评估平滑欧拉特征变换(SECT)——一种独立于强度、编码全局3D血管几何的方向性表示——并与基于持续性的方法(持久图像与景观)对比,使用RSNA 2025数据集的分层子集进行测试。SECT取得0.943的AUC,显著优于无方向性方法(约0.68),且表现出临床性能反转:在小于3毫米亚组中维持0.943 AUC和78.5%敏感度,同时达到95%特异性。该表示还具备扫描仪无关性,在四家厂商的留一扫描仪外验证(LOGO)中平均AUC达0.927。通过捕捉非对称几何不变量而非强度分布,SECT可靠地解决了动脉瘤检测中的主要结构混淆问题,可作为混合深度学习诊断流程的稳健下游过滤器。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Automated detection of intracranial aneurysms (IAs) from CT angiography (CTA) is severely hindered by high false-positive rates. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) rely on local pixel intensities, causing systematic confusion between saccular aneurysms and vascular bifurcations - a problem especially acute for small lesions (<3 mm), where detection sensitivity falls below 60%. We propose a plug-and-play, topology-aware false-positive reduction framework evaluating the Smooth Euler Characteristic Transform (SECT) - a directional representation encoding global 3D vascular geometry independently of intensity - against persistence-based summaries (Persistence Images and Landscapes), tested on a stratified subset of the RSNA 2025 dataset. SECT achieves an AUC of 0.943, substantially outperforming direction-agnostic methods (AUC ~0.68), and exhibits a clinical performance inversion: it excels on the sub-3 mm cohort, maintaining 0.943 AUC and 78.5% sensitivity at 95% specificity. The representation is also scanner-agnostic, achieving 0.927 mean AUC under leave-one-scanner-out (LOGO) validation across four manufacturers. By capturing asymmetric geometric invariants rather than intensity profiles, SECT reliably resolves the primary structural confounder in IA detection, positioning it as a robust downstream filter for hybrid deep-learning diagnostic pipelines.
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