MoE-based Feature Adapter for Prompt-free Binary Coronary Artery Segmentation in X-ray Angiography

📅 2026-08-25
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本文提出了一种基于MoE的特征适配器,用于X射线血管造影中冠状动脉的二值分割,解决了细小低对比度血管难以准确分割的问题。
📝 Abstract
Accurate segmentation of coronary arteries in X-ray angiography videos is essential for quantitative coronary analysis and image-guided interventions. However, accurate segmentation remains challenging because coronary vessels are thin and exhibit low contrast, while the presence of catheters, guidewires, and complex anatomical background structures can further interfere with vessel delineation. Existing U-Net- and Transformer-based models provide strong baselines, but their shared feature-adaptation pathways may be insufficient for heterogeneous angiographic appearances. In this paper, we propose a prompt-free mixture-of-experts (MoE) feature adapter for binary coronary artery segmentation. Built upon parameter-efficient Vision Transformer adapters, the proposed method uses multiple lightweight experts with input-dependent top-$k$ routing to adaptively refine vessel-related features while limiting active computational cost. Experiments on MOSXAV and external evaluation on XACV show that the proposed method outperforms representative baselines and improves cross-dataset generalisation. These results suggest that MoE-based adapter learning is effective for robust coronary artery segmentation in X-ray angiography videos.
Problem

Research questions and friction points this paper is trying to address.

X-ray angiography
coronary artery segmentation
low contrast
catheters
guidewires
Innovation

Methods, ideas, or system contributions that make the work stand out.

Mixture-of-Experts (MoE)
Feature Adapter
Top-k Routing
Parameter-efficient
Cross-dataset Generalisation
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Lin Xi
University College London, United Kingdom; University of East Anglia, United Kingdom
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Yingliang Ma
University of East Anglia, United Kingdom; King’s College London, United Kingdom