arXiv:2607.24529eess.IV2026-07

轻量级网络提升超声图像分割精度,适合低资源医疗设备部署。

Efficient Ultrasound Image Segmentation with Token-Conditioned Neural Cellular Automata

论文配图:Efficient Ultrasound Image Segmentation with Token-Conditioned Neural Cellular Automata
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  • 用令牌控制的细胞自动机迭代优化特征,减少计算开销。
  • 在多个数据集上达96.62%最高分割准确率,边界定位更精准。
  • 无需预训练,在跨域数据上仍保持良好性能,适合临床落地。

床旁超声(POCUS)在资源有限的临床环境中对即时诊断至关重要。尽管深度学习显著提升了超声图像分割性能,但其高计算成本限制了在便携设备上的应用。为此,本文提出LiteAdaNCA-Net(LANCANet),一种基于令牌条件神经细胞自动机(NCA)适配器的轻量级分割框架,通过结构感知令牌引导局部NCA迭代优化。利用Token FiLM机制实现边界感知的特征细化,计算开销极小。在HC18、CCA和PSFHS数据集上评估,LANCANet在两个独立非洲胎儿头颅数据集上也表现出鲁棒性。实验表明,其在HC18和CCA上的Dice相似系数分别达到96.62%和92.86%,优于当前主流轻量级CNN与Transformer方法;在挑战性的耻骨联合结构上表现最佳,同时保持良好的胎儿头颅分割精度。即便从零训练,其在外部数据集KEN-FH和AFR-FH上仍具竞争力,证明该方法在大幅降低计算成本的同时,显著提升分割准确性和边界定位能力,适用于资源受限的临床部署。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) plays an important role in bedside diagnosis and clinical decision-making, particularly in resource-constrained settings. Recent deep learning methods have substantially improved ultrasound image segmentation, enabling accurate diagnosis and biometric estimation. However, their computational cost limits deployment on portable and low-resource devices. To address this challenge, we propose LiteAdaNCA-Net (LANCANet), a lightweight ultrasound segmentation framework that incorporates token-conditioned Neural Cellular Automata (NCA) adapters for iterative feature refinement. Specifically, structure-aware tokens guide local NCA refinement via Token FiLM, enabling boundary-aware feature refinement with minimal computational cost. We evaluate LANCANet on HC18, CCA, and PSFHS, and assess robustness on two independent African fetal head datasets collected from multiple clinical centers. Experimental results demonstrate that LANCANet achieves competitive or superior performance to recent lightweight CNN- and transformer-based methods. On HC18 and CCA, LANCANet achieves the highest Dice Similarity Coefficient (DSC) of 96.62\% and 92.86\%, respectively. On PSFHS, it achieves the best performance on the challenging pubic symphysis structure while maintaining competitive fetal head segmentation accuracy. Furthermore, despite being trained from scratch, LANCANet maintains competitive performance on the external KEN-FH and AFR-FH datasets under substantial domain shifts. These results show that token-conditioned NCA refinement improves segmentation accuracy and boundary localization while maintaining computational efficiency for resource-constrained clinical deployment. Our code is on \href{https://anonymous.4open.science/r/LANCAN-21A0/README.md}{GitHub}.

超声分割轻量模型细胞自动机医疗部署

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