Few-Shot Left Atrial Wall Segmentation in 3D LGE MRI via Meta-Learning
Segmenting the left atrial (LA) wall from late gadolinium enhancement magnetic resonance imaging (LGE-MRI) is challenging because of its thin geometry, low contrast, and limited expert annotations. We propose a model-agnostic meta-learning (MAML) framework with a 3D residual U-Net backbone for K-shot (K = 5, 10, 20) LA wall segmentation. The framework is meta-trained on LA wall tasks together with auxiliary LA and right atrial (RA) cavity tasks and uses a boundary-aware composite loss to improve thin-structure delineation. We evaluated MAML on a held-out clean test set and assessed its robustness under an unseen synthetic domain shift and on a local cohort. On the held-out clean test set, MAML outperformed the K-shot fine-tuning baseline at 5-shot, achieving Dice coefficient (DSC) = 0.54 versus 0.48 and Hausdorff distance (HD95) = 4.60 versus 6.40 mm. At 20-shot, MAML approached the fully supervised model trained from scratch, with DSC = 0.59 versus 0.61. Under unseen shifts, performance decreased relative to clean testing but improved consistently as K increased. At 5-shot, MAML achieved DSC = 0.52 and HD95 = 5.02 mm under the unseen synthetic shift, and DSC = 0.50 and HD95 = 5.43 mm on the local cohort. These results suggest that meta-learning can improve thin-wall delineation in low-shot adaptation and may reduce the annotation burden for atrial remodeling assessment.
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