无需密集标注,实现高精度纳米级肾小球基底膜三维形态测量。
Beyond Isotropic Assumptions: Continuity-Constrained Segmentation and GPU Morphometry for Nanoscale GBM Analysis

- 利用随机旋转训练块,从横向信息补足纵向缺失数据。
- 连续性损失使切片间保持平滑,抑制周期性阶梯伪影。
- 支持无密集标注的3D形态计量,适合病理组织分析场景。
光学生物样本经光学透明和膨胀处理后,可通过共聚焦显微镜实现三维结构解析,但成像具有高度各向异性:在欠采样的轴向方向上,结构易出现断裂,阻碍重建与自动化定量分析。传统方法需将轴向维度上采样至各向同性再训练分割模型,但要求在上采样空间中进行密集标注,标注成本极高。本文提出端到端、基于GPU加速的框架,无需额外标注即可克服此问题。模型在原始采集体积上训练,通过随机旋转训练块,利用高分辨率横向平面提供缺失的轴向信息,并引入z轴连续性损失确保相邻切片一致性。采用3D U-Net与SwinUNETR两种主干网络,通过高斯共识聚合重叠块,基于射线-表面相交在GPU上计算点扩散函数校正后的膜厚度。应用于肾小球基底膜(GBM)分析,该结构薄且高度卷曲,在疾病状态下更为不规则。分割精度达到专家间一致水平。连续性感知训练显著提升重建平滑度,仅轻微降低精度便有效抑制周期性阶梯伪影。在重构的3D表面上量化GBM厚度,成功捕捉疾病相关增厚现象,实现了无需密集体素标签或图像修复的全自动各向异性3D形态计量。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Confocal microscopy of optically cleared and swelled tissue resolves complex biological structures in 3D, but such acquisitions are highly anisotropic: along the under-sampled axial direction the structure can appear discontinuous, hampering reconstruction and automated quantitative analysis. The usual remedy upsamples the axial dimension to an isotropic volume before training a segmentation model, which requires dense annotations in the upsampled space, a prohibitive labeling burden. We present an end-to-end, GPU-accelerated framework that overcomes this without additional annotations. The model is trained on the native acquisition volume; random rotation of training patches leverages the well-resolved lateral plane to supply the missing axial information, and a z-axis continuity loss keeps neighboring slices consistent. We adapt both a convolutional (3D U-Net) and a transformer (SwinUNETR) backbone, aggregate overlapping patches by Gaussian consensus, and compute point-spread-function-corrected membrane thickness by ray-surface intersection on the GPU. We apply the method to the glomerular basement membrane (GBM), a thin, highly convoluted part of the kidney's filtration barrier that grows more irregular in disease. Segmentation accuracy matches inter-expert agreement. Continuity-aware training improves reconstruction smoothness and suppresses a periodic terracing artifact at minimal accuracy cost. We quantify GBM thickness across the reconstructed 3D surface and capture disease-related thickening, enabling fully automated anisotropic 3D morphometry of biological structures without dense volumetric labels or image restoration.
Thank you to arXiv for use of its open access interoperability. PaperDance 不是 arXiv 官方产品;中文卡片由大模型生成,请以原文为准。