arXiv:2608.01518cs.CV2026-08中稿 · the MICCAI 2026 CL…

用不确定性指导边界感知,缓解超声分割中的遗忘问题。

UCBound-Net: Uncertainty-Guided Boundary-Aware Continual Learning for Domain-Incremental Ultrasound Segmentation

论文配图:UCBound-Net: Uncertainty-Guided Boundary-Aware Continual Learning for Domain-Incremental Ultrasound Segmentation
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  • 基于蒙特卡洛丢弃的不确定性识别易忘区域,强化关键区域知识迁移。
  • 在双任务超声分割中实现0.755平均Dice系数,遗忘率降低34%。
  • 无需任务边界标签,适合临床持续学习场景的部署与应用。

临床影像持续学习面临双重挑战:模型需吸收新解剖域知识,同时保留先前任务的表征,即灾难性遗忘问题。现有缓解策略如正则化和知识蒸馏对所有空间区域一视同仁,忽视了预测不确定性与遗忘倾向之间的强相关性。本文提出UCBound-Net,一种利用蒙特卡洛(MC)Dropout不确定性作为遗忘风险空间代理的持续分割框架。该方法包含三个协同组件:(i) 不确定性加权边界蒸馏,在冻结教师模型高熵区域增强知识传递信号;(ii) 不确定性校准正则化,显式惩罚过度自信的错误预测;(iii) 不确定性引导的原型选择,记忆缓冲区优先存储边界区域预测熵最高的样本。在乳腺超声(BUSI,任务1)后接甲状腺超声(TN3K,任务2)的序列领域增量基准上评估,相比简单微调,UCBound-Net将反向转移(BWT)从-0.173提升至-0.098,跨任务平均骰子相似系数(DSC)达0.755。所提框架优于基线方法,且无需任务边界监督。消融实验进一步表明各组件独立贡献于遗忘缓解,为临床图像分割中的不确定性感知持续学习提供了实用路径。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Continual learning in clinical imaging faces a dual challenge: a model must assimilate knowledge from new anatomical domains while retaining representations learned from prior tasks, a problem known as catastrophic forgetting. Existing mitigation strategies, including regularization and knowledge distillation, treat all spatial regions equally, ignoring the fact that prediction uncertainty is strongly correlated with the propensity for forgetting. We introduce UCBound-Net, a continual segmentation framework that exploits Monte Carlo (MC) Dropout uncertainty as a spatial proxy for forgetting risk. Our method contributes three synergistic components: (i) uncertainty-weighted boundary distillation, which amplifies the knowledge transfer signal at high-entropy regions of the frozen teacher; (ii) uncertainty-calibration regularization, which explicitly penalizes overconfident erroneous predictions; and (iii) uncertainty-guided exemplar selection, a memory buffer that preferentially stores samples whose boundary regions exhibit the highest predictive entropy. Evaluated on a sequential domain-incremental benchmark comprising breast ultrasound (BUSI, Task 1) followed by thyroid ultrasound (TN3K, Task 2), UCBound-Net reduces forgetting relative to naive fine-tuning, achieving a backward transfer (BWT) of -0.098 compared with -0.173, while obtaining an average Dice Similarity Coefficient (DSC) of 0.755 across both tasks. The proposed framework outperforms baseline methods without requiring task-boundary supervision. An ablation study further demonstrates that each component contributes independently to forgetting mitigation, providing a practical pathway toward uncertainty-aware continual learning for clinical image segmentation.

持续学习超声分割不确定性建模

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