arXiv:2607.05965cs.CVcs.AI2026-07中稿 · MICCAI 2026

通过跨截面一致性检测单掩码标注噪声,提升医学图像标注可信度。

Decoupled Single-Mask Annotation Noise Detection via Cross-Sectional Patch Self-Consistency

论文配图:Decoupled Single-Mask Annotation Noise Detection via Cross-Sectional Patch Self-Consistency
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  • 利用血管截面图像的重复性,自动比对相似区域标注一致性。
  • 发现横截面与斜向血管标注错误率是轴对齐结构的5.1倍。
  • 适合需要高质量标注数据的医学影像模型训练与数据审计。

血管计算机断层扫描数据通常每幅扫描仅标注一次,导致普遍存在但未被充分关注的单掩码标注噪声问题。现有方法或需昂贵多评分者融合,或与网络训练耦合,无法明确审计标签失效位置与原因。本文提出一种解耦框架,基于跨截面补丁自一致性生成可解释且可审计的噪声证据。管状解剖结构具有强跨截面重复性:沿血管中心线正交提取的补丁在不同位置和受试者间外观重复。因此,解剖相似补丁应具有一致掩码,不一致则提示标注不可靠。方法采样跨截面补丁,通过可扩展向量搜索检索强度等效邻居,并基于统计掩码差异计算补丁级噪声得分,为每个标记区域提供明确的图像-掩码证据。聚合得分生成扫描级质量图,可用于数据集质量评估或质量加权训练。在冠状动脉CT数据集上的实验验证了噪声检测效果,提升了训练鲁棒性,并揭示系统性标注偏差:横截面与斜向血管错误率是轴对齐结构的5.1倍,且与截面面积和强度相关。代码已公开。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Vascular computed tomography datasets are commonly annotated only once per scan, yielding the pervasive yet under addressed problem of single mask annotation noise. Existing solutions either require costly multirater fusion or are coupled with network training, preventing explicit auditing of where and why labels fail. We introduce a decoupled framework for single-mask annotation noise detection that leverages cross-sectional patch self-consistency to produce interpretable and auditable noise evidence. Tubular anatomy exhibits strong cross-sectional recurrence: patches extracted orthogonally along vessel centrelines recur in appearance across locations and subjects. Thus, anatomically similar patches should have consistent masks, and disagreement signals unreliable annotation. Our method samples cross-sectional patches, retrieves intensity-equivalent neighbours via scalable vector search, and computes a patch-level noise score from statistical mask disagreement, yielding explicit image-mask evidence for every flagged region. Aggregating scores produces scan-level quality maps for dataset quality assessment or quality-weighted training. Experiments on the coronary CT dataset validate the detected noise for improving training robustness and reveal systematic annotation biases. Specifically, transverse and oblique vessels exhibit 5.1 times higher error rates than axis-aligned structures, with additional correlations to cross-sectional area and intensity. Code is available here.

医学图像标注噪声自一致性数据质量

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