Automatic Echocardiography Segmentation via Transition Probability Correlation for Stable Semantic Extraction

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.07580v1
• Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2026 16:04:05 GMT
• Title: Automatic Echocardiography Segmentation via Transition Probability Correlation for Stable Semantic Extraction
• Abstract summary: Improbable speckle noise and low signal-to-noise ratio lead to ambiguous semantic features and fragmented boundaries.<n>We design a STLSF module which comprises a window-matching-based semantic correction component and a semantics-guided texture enhancement component.<n>We achieve 93.87% Dice on CAMUS and 92.62% on EchoNet-Dynamic, with respective HD95 values of 3.29mm and 2.73mm.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: While echocardiography is essential for cardiovascular diagnosis, inherent speckle noise and low signal-to-noise ratio often lead to ambiguous semantic features and fragmented boundaries. These limitations significantly hinder the segmentation accuracy of deep learning models in complex clinical cases. Moreover, temporal motion of the heart plays a critical role in recognizing anatomical structures. To address these challenges, we designed a STLSF module which comprises a window-matching-based semantic correction component and a semantics-guided texture enhancement component. By leveraging local transition probability correlations to correct semantics and employing semantics-guided texture enhancement, the STLSF module effectively mitigates texture instability and ambiguous semantic interpretations caused by disadvantaged echocardiography quality. Additionally, to facilitate the encoder's adaptation to the intrinsic priors of ultrasound-specific imaging patterns, we propose a frequency-aware denoising pre-training method. The entire work builds a convolution-based network with locality inductive bias and long-range dependencies. Extensive experiments confirm our SOTA performance, achieving 93.87\% Dice on CAMUS and 92.62\% on EchoNet-Dynamic, with respective HD95 values of 3.29mm and 2.73mm.

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