无需目标数据,通过迭代压缩提升医学影像分割鲁棒性
CRISP: Constrained Refinement via Iterative Squeezing Process for Robust Medical Image Segmentation under Domain Shift

- 利用概率排序稳定性构建空间先验,不依赖目标域数据
- 在多中心心脏MRI和肺血管分割上,HD95误差降低最多38.9%
- 适合临床部署,无需测试时更新参数,兼容各类模型
医学影像分布偏移仍是医疗AI临床应用的核心瓶颈。现有领域自适应方法受限于预设模拟偏移或伪监督,难以应对真实世界中无限且不可预测的分布变化。本文基于正区域排名稳定性假设,提出CRISP——一种无需测试时参数更新、无需目标域数据的目标无关、即插即用式精炼框架。该框架通过潜在特征扰动,识别出在扰动下保持高精度的高精度核心(HP)与至少一种扰动下仍为前景的高召回支持(HR),并递归优化这两类先验。设计的迭代训练流程逐步压缩HP与HR至最终分割结果。在多中心心脏MRI及基于CT的肺血管分割任务中,CRISP表现显著优于当前最佳方法,跨多中心、人口统计学与模态偏移场景,HD95误差分别降低0.14(7.0%)、1.90(13.1%)和8.39(38.9%)像素。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Distribution shift in medical imaging remains a central bottleneck for the clinical translation of medical AI. Failure to address it can lead to severe performance degradation in unseen environments and exacerbate health inequities. Existing methods for domain adaptation are inherently limited by exhausting predefined possibilities through simulated shifts or pseudo-supervision. Such strategies struggle in the open-ended and unpredictable real world, where distribution shifts are effectively infinite. To address this challenge, we adopt the "Rank Stability of Positive Regions" as a working assumption under distribution shift, and use it to derive robust spatial hints for source-only segmentation. Guided by this assumption, we propose CRISP, a model-agnostic framework that, unlike deployment-time adaptation, requires no test-time parameter updates and no target-domain data--a target-free, plug-in refinement framework that segments with frozen weights. Rather than using ranking to directly output masks, CRISP exploits the stability of probability rankings under distribution shift to derive robust spatial priors. Via latent feature perturbation, perturbation-invariant high-grade regions define a high-precision (HP) core, while voxels that remain potentially foreground under at least one perturbation define a high-recall (HR) support; these dual priors are then recursively refined under perturbation. We then design an iterative training framework that progressively squeezes HP and HR toward the final segmentation. Extensive evaluations on multi-center cardiac MRI and CT-based lung vessel segmentation demonstrate CRISP's superior robustness, significantly outperforming state-of-the-art methods with striking HD95 reductions of up to 0.14 (7.0% improvement), 1.90 (13.1% improvement), and 8.39 (38.9% improvement) pixels across multi-center, demographic, and modality shifts, respectively.
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