OaCMatch: Semi-supervised medical image segmentation network based on unlabeled information constraints and joint feature perturbation
摘要
Semantic segmentation is a fundamental task in medical image analysis, yet its performance heavily relies on large-scale annotated datasets, which are costly to obtain. Semi-supervised methods alleviate this issue but often suffer from insufficient utilization of unlabeled data and information loss during perturbation. To address these challenges, we propose OaCMatch, a novel weak-to-strong consistency framework that explicitly leverages raw unlabeled images. The key novelty of our method lies in two aspects: (1) an Unlabeled Information Constraint Perturbation (UICP) module that extracts attention from original unlabeled images to guide strong perturbations, improving pseudo-label reliability; and (2) a Joint Feature Perturbation (JFP) module that injects global feature information from raw images into the feature perturbation process, mitigating semantic loss and expanding the perturbation space. Extensive experiments on ACDC and LA datasets demonstrate that the proposed method consistently outperforms existing semi-supervised approaches across multiple evaluation metrics, highlighting the effectiveness of directly incorporating raw unlabeled image information into consistency learning.