arXiv:2409.13846cs.CVcs.LG2024-09被引 1

利用多模态信息修复脑部弥散MRI视野缺失,提升白质连接分析精度。

Multi-Modality Conditioned Variational U-Net for Field-of-View Extension in Brain Diffusion MRI

  • 融合已知弥散特征与完整解剖结构,生成缺失区域的弥散MRI数据
  • 在96名受试者上实现角相关系数显著提升(p<1E-5)和分割重合度提高(p<0.01)
  • 特别适合神经退行性疾病中因视野不全导致连接分析不确定的场景

弥散磁共振成像(dMRI)中视野不完整会严重阻碍全脑白质连接的体积与纤维束分析。尽管已有研究尝试使用深度生成模型填补缺失区域,但如何有效利用配对的多模态数据仍不明确,且其对下游纤维追踪的帮助尚不清楚。为此,本文提出一种新型框架,通过将已知视野内的弥散特征与完整脑解剖结构结合,重建视野缺失部分的dMRI数据。我们假设该设计能提升弥散数据修复质量,从而改善受损扫描中全脑纤维追踪的准确性。在来自两个不同站点共96名受试者的两组队列上测试,相较于将T1w与dMRI信息同等对待的基线方法,本框架在数据修复性能(角相关系数,p < 1E-5)和下游纤维追踪准确率(Dice分数,p < 0.01)上均显著提升。结果表明,通过有针对性地利用多模态附加信息,该框架显著改善了dMRI数据修复效果,并提升了全脑纤维追踪质量,从而降低神经退行性疾病相关纤维束分析中的不确定性。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

An incomplete field-of-view (FOV) in diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) can severely hinder the volumetric and bundle analyses of whole-brain white matter connectivity. Although existing works have investigated imputing the missing regions using deep generative models, it remains unclear how to specifically utilize additional information from paired multi-modality data and whether this can enhance the imputation quality and be useful for downstream tractography. To fill this gap, we propose a novel framework for imputing dMRI scans in the incomplete part of the FOV by integrating the learned diffusion features in the acquired part of the FOV to the complete brain anatomical structure. We hypothesize that by this design the proposed framework can enhance the imputation performance of the dMRI scans and therefore be useful for repairing whole-brain tractography in corrupted dMRI scans with incomplete FOV. We tested our framework on two cohorts from different sites with a total of 96 subjects and compared it with a baseline imputation method that treats the information from T1w and dMRI scans equally. The proposed framework achieved significant improvements in imputation performance, as demonstrated by angular correlation coefficient (p < 1E-5), and in downstream tractography accuracy, as demonstrated by Dice score (p < 0.01). Results suggest that the proposed framework improved imputation performance in dMRI scans by specifically utilizing additional information from paired multi-modality data, compared with the baseline method. The imputation achieved by the proposed framework enhances whole brain tractography, and therefore reduces the uncertainty when analyzing bundles associated with neurodegenerative.

弥散MRI多模态融合图像修复纤维追踪

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