让AI像医生一样动态决定是否需要加拍CT不同阶段。
Policy-Driven CT-Agent: Modeling Phase-Aware Diagnostic Control for Clinically Consistent CT Reasoning

- 用统一表示学习融合不同扫描阶段的影像信息。
- 能判断当前数据是否足够,不够就自动请求补充扫描阶段。
- 可适配不同医院或指南的诊断流程,更贴近临床实际。
CT诊断常需根据初步发现、临床怀疑和指南动态选择非增强、动脉期或静脉期等扫描阶段,这对减少辐射暴露和及时分期治疗至关重要。然而现有CT-AI方法多假设所有阶段均已获取,仅在固定阶段上做静态分析,未能建模是否需要额外阶段。这源于多阶段表征异质性、仅依赖视觉线索的决策局限,以及现有数据集缺乏阶段充分性标注。为此,我们提出政策驱动的CT-Agent(PD-CTAgent),通过临床结构抽象模块(CSAM)将异构阶段统一为相位感知的证据表示,并基于知识引导的诊断控制模型(KDCM)评估阶段充分性,必要时迭代请求新阶段。其政策驱动设计支持灵活适配不同机构、区域或指南的诊断协议。在两个公开数据集(LIDC、MCT-LTDiag)及一个私有数据集上的实验验证了其有效性和临床一致性。代码将在录用后公开。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Computed Tomography (CT) diagnosis often relies on dynamic selection of imaging phases, such as non-contrast, arterial, or venous phases, based on preliminary findings, clinical suspicion, and diagnostic guidelines. This phase-wise decision process is critical for reducing unnecessary radiation exposure while supporting timely staging and treatment planning. However, phase-selection protocols can vary across hospitals, regions, and guidelines, while most existing CT-based AI methods assume that all phases are available and focus on static tasks under a fixed imaging phase, failing to model whether additional phases are required. This limitation stems from heterogeneous multi-phase representations, the need for knowledge-guided phase control beyond visual cues, and the lack of supervision for phase-sufficiency decisions in existing datasets. To address these challenges, we propose Policy-Driven CT-Agent (PD-CTAgent) for clinically consistent CT phase selection and diagnostic reasoning. PD-CTAgent introduces a Clinical Structure Abstraction Module (CSAM) to harmonize heterogeneous CT phases into a unified, phase-aware evidence representation. Based on this representation, a Knowledge-Guided Diagnostic Control Model (KDCM) evaluates phase sufficiency and iteratively requests additional phases when necessary. The policy-driven agent design further allows PD-CTAgent to flexibly follow different institutional, regional, or guideline-specific diagnostic protocols. Together, PD-CTAgent bridges static CT analysis and real-world clinical workflows. Experiments on two public datasets, LIDC and MCT-LTDiag, and one private dataset demonstrate its effectiveness and clinical consistency. Code will be made public upon acceptance.
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