arXiv:2607.17551cs.CVcs.AI2026-07

通过解剖引导与层次学习,提升肺超声视频分类准确性与可解释性。

Hierarchy-Aware and Anatomy-Guided Learning for Lung Ultrasound Video Classification

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  • 引入层级训练与胸膜线掩码监督,聚焦解剖关键区域。
  • 平均宏F1达65.7%,在四类病理中实现更好病灶区分。
  • 适合医疗AI研究者与临床超声辅助诊断应用。

肺超声(LUS)是评估心力衰竭或肾功能不全患者肺水肿的床旁工具,但受斑点噪声、成像伪影及操作者差异影响,自动化分析仍具挑战。本文提出一种深度学习框架,包含层次感知训练与解剖引导学习。基于强基线模型,采用层级训练策略,并引入胸膜线掩码监督以引导模型关注解剖相关区域。在包含1,886段视频、来自219名患者的公开数据集上,对健康、B线、实变及混合实变与B线四类进行患者级五折交叉验证。结果表明,层次训练提升了病理区分能力;掩码引导注意力使平均宏F1达65.7%,且注意力更集中于特定解剖区域。在外部新冠相关数据集COVID-BLUeS上的迁移实验也显示良好性能与参数高效性,同时保持胸膜专注注意力行为。研究证明,结合临床结构目标与解剖引导监督是实现鲁棒、可解释肺超声视频分析的有效路径。代码与模型已开源。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Lung ultrasound (LUS) is a bedside tool for assessing pulmonary edema in patients at risk due to heart failure or impaired kidney function. However, automated LUS analysis remains challenging because of speckle noise, imaging artifacts, and operator-dependent acquisition variability. In this work, we present a deep learning framework for multi-class LUS video classification that explores two components: hierarchy-aware training, and anatomy-guided learning. Starting from a strong baseline, we introduce hierarchical training strategies and then introduce pleural line mask supervision to guide model attention toward anatomically relevant regions. We study four clinically relevant classes--healthy, B-lines, consolidations, and mixed B-lines with consolidations--using an open-access dataset of 1,886 videos from 219 patients, evaluated with patient-level five-fold cross-validation. Results show that hierarchy-aware training improves pathological separation relative to flat classification, while mask-guided attention supervision achieves the highest mean macro-F1 of 65.7\% and produces more localized attention patterns. Transfer experiments on the external COVID-BLUeS dataset further show competitive and parameter-efficient adaptation while preserving pleural-focused attention behavior. These findings suggest that combining clinically structured objectives with anatomy-guided supervision is a practical approach to robust, interpretable LUS video analysis. Code and model implementations are available at https://github.com/Alya-Almsouti/LUS-video-classification.

肺超声视频分类解剖引导医疗AI

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