Optimal Transport Metric Learning for Feature Alignment in Partially Supervised Segmentation

📅 2026-09-15
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本文针对部分标注数据集和跨域迁移问题,提出了一种两阶段学习框架,通过可学习器官原型和Sinkhorn-triplet损失来实现特征一致性,有效提升了多器官分割性能。
📝 Abstract
Multi-organ segmentation is often challenged by partially annotated datasets and domain shifts across different imaging sources. To address these limitations, we propose a two-stage learning framework that efficiently leverages partial supervision. In the first stage, the model learns from available annotations to produce accurate segmentations of annotated organs, establishing robust feature representations. In the second stage, we introduce learnable organ prototypes and a Sinkhorn-triplet loss to enforce organ-wise feature consistency across datasets. This encourages latent embeddings of the same organ to remain close, while increasing separation between different organs, even when annotations are missing. Our approach achieves performance comparable to state-of-the-art methods on the BTCV dataset, while remaining computationally efficient. By explicitly aligning feature distributions rather than relying solely on pseudo-labels, the framework effectively mitigates domain shift, making it particularly suitable for medical image segmentation tasks with limited annotation resources.
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Multi-organ segmentation
Partially annotated datasets
Domain shifts
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learnable organ prototypes
Sinkhorn-triplet loss
feature alignment
partial supervision
domain shift mitigation
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