用可微分的古典图像算子池,提升少样本球状细胞分割的可解释性与性能。
HyperBank: A Differentiable Bank of Classical Priors for Few-Shot Spheroid Microscopy Segmentation

- 构建可微分的古典滤波器库,融合多种经典图像特征。
- 在小样本下表现媲美大模型,特定数据上更优。
- 适合需要可解释性的医学图像分析场景。
少样本球状细胞分割需适应新细胞系、显微镜和光照条件,仅依赖少量标注图像。尽管基础少样本分割模型精度高,但其庞大且不透明的主干网络难以理解成功或失败的关键视觉线索。本文提出HyperBank,一个可微分的古典图像处理算子库,包含Frangi血管度、Sauvola阈值金字塔、结构张量响应、梯度幅值与拉普拉斯高斯滤波器。HyperBank在标注的支持图像上拟合,并在三个独立获取的球状体数据集的独立测试图像上评估。它不作为基础模型的通用替代,而是作为紧凑、可解释的少样本显微成像流水线,以及探测哪些经典先验线索承载少样本信号的分析工具。结果表明,在相同少量标注支持图像上,一个紧凑的分析先验库在性能上可与大型基础模型比肩,且在小簇、对比度驱动的数据上表现更优;而基础模型在外部来源、纹理主导的样本上仍具优势。留一家族消融实验表明,有效的少样本信号分布于不同算子族中,且通过支持集调优的形态学可进一步增强。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Few-shot spheroid segmentation must adapt to new cell lines, microscopes, and illumination conditions from only a small set of annotated images. While foundation few-shot segmenters can be accurate, their large opaque backbones make it difficult to understand which visual cues drive success or failure. We study this question with HyperBank, a differentiable bank of classical image-processing operators combining Frangi vesselness, a Sauvola threshold pyramid, structure-tensor responses, gradient magnitude, and Laplacian-of-Gaussian filters. HyperBank is fitted on the annotated support images and evaluated on disjoint held-out images across three independently acquired spheroid datasets. We treat it not as a general replacement for foundation models, but as a compact, interpretable few-shot microscopy pipeline and an analytic-prior probe of which classical cues carry the few-shot signal. The results show that, adapted on the same few annotated support images, a compact bank of analytic priors is competitive with, and on small-cluster, contrast-driven data can outperform, much larger foundation models, while those models remain stronger on externally sourced, texture-dominated spheroids. Leave-one-family-out ablations indicate that the useful few-shot signal is distributed across operator families and strengthened by support-set-tuned morphology.
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