arXiv:2608.19769eess.IVcs.CV2026-08

利用大脑对称性实现跨模态、跨阶段脑梗死自动分割,提升诊断效率与准确性。

AsymFeX: A Symmetry-Driven Framework for Ischemic Stroke Segmentation Across Imaging Modalities and Stroke Stages

论文配图:AsymFeX: A Symmetry-Driven Framework for Ischemic Stroke Segmentation Across Imaging Modalities and Stroke Stages
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  • 基于左右半球对称性设计,通过跨侧注意力捕捉病灶差异。
  • 在AISD数据集上达到0.6796 Dice,优于现有最优方法。
  • 适用于CT、MRI等多模态,且无需调整结构,适合临床部署。

快速准确地分割急性缺血性脑卒中(AIS)病灶对预后评估和治疗决策至关重要。非增强CT(NCCT)作为一线影像手段,其病灶对比度低,手动勾画耗时费力。受临床实践中通过比较双侧脑区定位病灶的启发,我们提出一种两阶段、兼容nnU-Net的3D分割方法:第一阶段校正头颅倾斜,使每例扫描对齐真实矢状中线;第二阶段引入新型非对称特征提取模块(AsymFeX),在局部3×3×3邻域内通过跨侧注意力、特征差异估计与双尺度门控机制,比较每个体素与其真正对侧对应点,以捕获大小病灶。在AISD数据集上,本方法取得0.6796 Dice、23.53 mm HD95、7.69 mL AVD,显著优于现有最先进方法,并在70 mL溶栓阈值下实现具有临床意义的体积分析。在ATLAS v2.1和ISLES'24上的概念验证表明,该对称驱动设计可跨模态与卒中阶段泛化,无需架构修改,且不确定性分析支持其在临床部署中的可靠性。代码已公开于https://github.com/biomedia-lab/AIS-detection。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Fast and accurate segmentation of Acute Ischemic Stroke (AIS) lesions is essential for stroke prognosis and treatment planning. Non-contrast CT (NCCT), the first-line imaging modality for diagnosing ischemic infarcts, exhibits subtle infarct contrast, making manual delineation slow and labor-intensive. Motivated by this, and by the clinical practice of comparing brain hemispheres to localize infarcts, we propose a two-stage, nnU-Net-compatible 3D segmentation method. The first stage corrects head tilt to align each scan to its true anatomical mid-sagittal plane; the second applies a novel Asymmetric Feature Extraction (AsymFeX) module, comparing each voxel to its true contralateral counterpart within a local 3 x 3 x 3 neighborhood via cross-hemispheric attention, feature disparity estimation, and dual-scale gating to capture both large and small infarcts. On AISD, our method achieves 0.6796 Dice, 23.53 mm HD95, and 7.69 mL AVD, significantly outperforming existing state-of-the-art methods, with clinically relevant volumetric analysis at the 70 mL thrombolysis-eligibility threshold. Proof-of-concept evaluation on ATLAS v2.1 and ISLES'24 demonstrates that the same symmetry-driven design generalizes across imaging modalities and stroke time points without architectural changes, further supported by an uncertainty analysis assessing reliability under clinical deployment. Code is publicly available at https://github.com/biomedia-lab/AIS-detection.

医学图像脑卒中分割对称性

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