基于引导式域扩展的单源域医学图像分割泛化方法

    Guided Domain Expansion for Single-source Medical Image Segmentation Generalization

    • 摘要: 成像原理、采集协议以及设备厂商的差异所引发的域偏移问题,给深度学习模型在医学图像分割中的应用带来了巨大挑战。单源域泛化(Single-source Domain Generalization, SDG) 仅依赖单一源域数据,无需目标域数据,为解决这一问题提供了一种切实可行的途径。然而,现有SDG方法往往依赖于复杂的特征操作或辅助生成网络,其效率和泛化能力受到限制。本文提出了一种专门针对医学图像的引导式域扩展(Guided Domain Expansion, GDE) 方法,利用基于Bézier曲线的单调非线性映射函数扩展数据分布,同时保留医学图像固有的灰度图像特征与解剖空间结构。首先对变换强度进行约束,以控制域扩展的方向,避免混乱的数据分布并降低模型训练负担,然后设计了一种语义信息精炼网络,其结合了解剖一致性约束框架与带有梯度反转层的对抗式域分类器。在跨模态和跨序列医学图像数据集上的实验结果表明,本文方法在分割任务中展现出较强的鲁棒性与泛化能力,比现有SDG方法更有效地解决了医学图像域偏移问题。

       

      Abstract: Domain shifts caused by variations in imaging principles, acquisition protocols, and equipment manufacturers pose significant challenges for deploying deep learning models in medical image segmentation. Single-source domain generalization (SDG) , which relies on data from only a single source domain without requiring access to target domain data, offers a practical solution to this issue. However, existing SDG methods often rely on complex feature operations or auxiliary generative networks, which hinder their efficiency and generalizability. In this research, a Guided Domain Expansion (GDE) method tailored for medical images is proposed. The proposed method employs a monotonic nonlinear mapping function based on Bézier curves to expand the data distribution while preserving the inherent gray-scale characteristics and anatomical spatial structures of medical images. By constraining the transformation intensity, the method can precisely control the direction of domain expansion, thereby avoiding chaotic data distributions and reducing the training burden of the model. To further enhance generalization,a Semantic Information Refining Network is introduced that integrates an Anatomic-Consistent Constraint Framework and an Adversarial Domain Classifier with a gradient reversal layer. Experimental evaluations on cross-modality and cross-sequence datasets demonstrate that this method consistently achieves superior performance, confirming its effectiveness in addressing domain shift challenges in medical imaging.

       

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