arXiv:2608.08368cs.CV2026-08

提出分层图网络,让糖尿病眼病分级更符合医学规律。

PARAGraph: Pathology-Anatomy-Aware Hierarchical Graph for Diabetic Retinopathy Grading

论文配图:PARAGraph: Pathology-Anatomy-Aware Hierarchical Graph for Diabetic Retinopathy Grading
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  • 构建三层分层图,融合病变类型与解剖位置信息
  • 在多个数据集上优于现有方法,对分割噪声更鲁棒
  • 适合需要可解释医疗AI的临床研究与医生辅助诊断

糖尿病视网膜病变(DR)是全球工作人群失明的主要原因,准确分级具有重要临床意义。现有深度模型多将分级视为图像级分类,未显式建模病变类型与空间关系等医学依据。本文提出PARAGraph框架,将每张图像表示为三级分层图:病变节点、中间类别与区域节点、全局解剖与语义节点。通过构建以视盘-黄斑为中心的坐标系,实现尺度与旋转归一化,病变节点编码类别、归一化面积及解剖坐标。为缓解病变分割噪声影响,采用双融合策略,将全局视觉上下文引入图语义节点与决策层预测分支,提升鲁棒性。在Messidor-2、APTOS和DDR数据集上的实验表明,PARAGraph性能持续优于当前最优方法。可解释性与鲁棒性分析进一步验证其预测结果与病变证据紧密关联,且对分割噪声不敏感。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Diabetic retinopathy (DR) remains a leading cause of vision loss among working-age adults worldwide, making reliable severity grading clinically important. Despite strong performance, most deep models formulate DR grading as image-level classification and do not explicitly model clinically grounded evidence, such as lesion types and spatial relations. In this paper, we propose PARAGraph, a Pathology-Anatomy-Aware Hierarchical Graph framework for DR grading. PARAGraph represents each image as a three-level hierarchical graph with lesion-level nodes, intermediate category and region nodes, and global anatomical and semantic nodes. To incorporate medical priors into nodes, we construct an optic disc-fovea-anchored coordinate frame that provides a scale- and rotation-normalized retinal reference system. Within this frame, lesion nodes are encoded with category, normalized area, and anatomical coordinates. To mitigate noisy lesion segmentation, PARAGraph uses a dual-fusion strategy that introduces global visual context into a graph semantic node and a decision-level prediction branch, improving robustness when lesion evidence is unreliable. Extensive experiments on Messidor-2, APTOS, and DDR show that PARAGraph achieves consistent DR grading performance over state-of-the-art methods. Interpretability and robustness analyses further demonstrate that its predictions are clinically grounded, closely associated with lesion evidence and robust to lesion segmentation noise.

糖尿病视网膜病变医疗图像分析图神经网络可解释性

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