提出四套OCT病变分割模型,实现2D/3D AMD与DME精准分割。
Automated 2D and 3D Segmentation of AMD and DME Lesions in OCT

- 构建4种2D与3D分割流水线,融合体积与表面校准机制。
- 在域内数据上达到0.76~0.82的Dice分数,体积与表面相关性超0.97。
- 首次通过代理指标验证模型在真实临床数据中的泛化能力。
年龄相关性黄斑变性(AMD)和糖尿病性黄斑水肿(DME)是致盲主因,光学相干断层扫描(OCT)是检测与监测关键病变的标准影像技术。现有深度学习分割研究多仅在同域数据验证,缺乏对不同采集协议下临床数据泛化能力的测试。本工作开发并系统消融了四种病变分割流水线——针对AMD与DME的2D与3D版本,在域内验证集上取得0.76至0.82的Dice分数,体积与表面相关性(r vol, r surf)均≥0.97。消融分析建立全体积、校准感知的评估标准,揭示集成策略为性能提升最稳定因素。为检验泛化能力,模型在外部临床队列OLIVES上评估,采用基于生物标志物AUROC、中心子场厚度(CST)相关性及纵向一致性构成的代理指标框架。预测结果在外域数据中仍与临床生物标志物相关,虽弱于域内表现,但支持自动化病变负荷追踪作为临床工具的潜力。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and diabetic macular edema (DME) are leading causes of vision loss, and optical coherence tomography (OCT) is the standard modality for detecting and monitoring the subtle lesions that drive treatment decisions. Most deep-learning segmentation work for OCT is validated only in-domain, leaving generalization to clinical data collected under different acquisition protocols largely untested. This work develops and systematically ablates four lesion-segmentation pipelines -- 2D and 3D variants for AMD and DME -- reaching Dice scores of 0.76 to 0.82 with strong volumetric and surface calibration (r vol, r surf greater than or equal to 0.97 across all four pipelines) on an in-domain validation set. The ablation process establishes a full-volume, calibration-aware adoption standard that catches mechanisms an ordinary slice-level evaluation would keep, and identifies ensemble composition as the most consistent driver of improvement. To test generalization, the models are evaluated on OLIVES, an external clinical cohort with no lesion-level ground truth, using a proxy-metric framework built around biomarker AUROC, central subfield thickness (CST) correlation, and longitudinal concordance. Predictions track clinical biomarkers outside the training distribution, though less strongly than in-domain -- evidence for, not validation of, automated lesion-burden tracking as a clinical tool.
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