arXiv:2608.23879eess.IVcs.CV2026-08中稿 · the 17th Statistic…

用心脏周期知识蒸馏,提升主动脉追踪精度与稳定性

Spatiotemporal Distillation via Recurrent Bottlenecks for Aortic Tracking

论文配图:Spatiotemporal Distillation via Recurrent Bottlenecks for Aortic Tracking
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  • 通过循环时空瓶颈+空间残差路径实现2D到2D+t的半监督知识迁移
  • 表面追踪准确率达92.3%,结构一致性达99.2%,异常减少超56%
  • 适合心血管影像分析、需要高精度动态分割的研究者

心脏电影MRI通过捕捉主动脉壁的连续运动,直接反映心血管血流动力学。量化整个心动周期中主动脉的动态变化对评估主动脉顺应性(动脉僵硬度的主要指标)至关重要。然而,标准2D分割网络独立处理每一帧,当快速收缩期血流暂时遮挡主动脉边界时,因缺乏连续上下文导致帧间追踪中断和边界不一致。时空(2D+t)网络虽能强制时间一致性,但专家标注稀缺。为此,我们提出一种利用心脏周期的半监督时空(2D→2D+t)知识蒸馏框架。该框架通过动态隐空间拦截,将空间教师模型的知识蒸馏至时空学生网络,结合循环时空瓶颈与残差空间旁路。模型选择策略在基准验证阈值(DSC≥0.50)后选取解剖一致性最高的训练轮次。该策略使时空学生模型在表面追踪精度(NSD@1mm = 92.3% ± 0.2%)和结构可靠性(Frac₂CC = 99.2% ± 0.6%)上表现优异,相比2D nnU-Net基线,整体结构异常降低超过56%。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Cardiac cine-MRI serves as a direct visual indicator of cardiovascular hemodynamics by capturing the continuous wall motion of the aorta. Quantifying these dynamic structural changes across the cardiac cycle is essential for measuring aortic distensibility, a primary marker of arterial stiffness. However, standard 2D segmentation networks focus on each frame independently. Consequently, when rapid systolic flow temporarily obscures the aorta's boundaries, this lack of continuous context results in frame-to-frame tracking dropouts and boundary inconsistencies. Spatiotemporal ($2\text{D}+t$) networks can enforce temporal consistency across the sequence but suffer from a scarcity of expert annotations. To address this, we present a semi-supervised spatiotemporal ($2\text{D}$ to $2\text{D}+t$) knowledge distillation framework exploiting the cardiac cycle. The framework distills a spatial teacher's expertise into a spatiotemporal student network by executing a dynamic latent interception, pairing a recurrent spatiotemporal bottleneck with a residual spatial bypass. Our model selection strategy applies a baseline validation threshold ($\text{DSC} \ge 0.50$) prior to selecting the epoch that maximizes anatomical consistency. This strategy enables the spatiotemporal student model to achieve superior surface tracking accuracy ($\text{NSD@1mm} = 92.3\% \pm 0.2\%$) and high structural reliability ($\text{Frac}_{2\text{CC}} = 99.2\% \pm 0.6\%$), reducing population-wide structural anomalies by over 56\% compared to a 2D nnU-Net baseline.

医学图像时空建模知识蒸馏主动脉追踪

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