cs.CVSep 26, 2026

CFCH: Coarse-Fine Collaborative Hierarchical Learning for Anterior Segment Disease Analysis

Authors: Peng Wang, Haohan Zou, Yanlin Wu, Xueshuo Xie, Yan Wang, Tao Li

Organizations: College of Cryptology and Cyber Science Nankai University, Tianjin, China · College of Engineering Yanbian University, Yanji, China · College of Computer Science Nankai University, Tianjin, China · Haihe Lab of ITAI Tianjin, China · 

Abstract

Accurate classification of anterior segment diseases is crucial for ophthalmic screening and diagnosis. However, slit-lamp image analysis remains challenging due to substantial variability in imaging conditions and the intrinsic anatomical-disease hierarchy of ocular pathologies. Existing methods typically formulate this task as a flat multi-class classification problem, ignoring the structured dependency between anatomical regions (e.g., cornea, conjunctiva, and lens) and disease manifestations.To address these limitations, we propose CFCH, a Coarse-Fine Collaborative Hierarchical learning framework that explicitly models anatomical context and disease semantics through a dual-branch architecture. To enable effective cross-granularity collaboration, CFCH introduces semantic and cross-granularity attention consistency constraints, encouraging aligned yet complementary feature learning across branches. In addition, we construct AS-9K, a large-scale anterior segment dataset with 8975 images covering 12 common disease categories. To the best of our knowledge, AS-9K is the largest publicly available dataset for anterior segment image classification. Extensive experiments on two anterior segment datasets demonstrate that CFCH outperforms state-of-the-art methods. Qualitative visualizations further show more focused and lesion-relevant activation responses, validating the effectiveness of the proposed framework. Code will be available at https://github.com/ybupengwang/CFCH.

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