用合成血管模型增强脑动脉瘤检测,提升AI识别效果。
Building a Synthetic Vascular Model: Evaluation in an Intracranial Aneurysms Detection Scenario
- 构建3D合成血管模型,还原动脉、分叉及动脉瘤形态。
- 利用合成数据训练网络,在检测任务中显著提升性能。
- 适合医学影像AI研究者,尤其关注数据增强与临床应用。
本文提出一个完整的三维合成血管模型,可模拟磁共振血管成像(Time of Flight)获取的脑血管树结构,包括大脑动脉、分叉点及颅内动脉瘤。该模型同时复现动脉几何形状、动脉瘤形态和背景噪声,其中血管结构通过3D样条插值生成,噪声特性源自真实造影数据。研究构建了用于动脉瘤分割与检测的3D卷积神经网络,并系统评估了使用合成数据进行增强后带来的性能提升。结果表明,合成数据有效改善了模型在颅内动脉瘤检测中的表现,为稀缺临床数据提供了高质量替代方案。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
We hereby present a full synthetic model, able to mimic the various constituents of the cerebral vascular tree, including the cerebral arteries, bifurcations and intracranial aneurysms. This model intends to provide a substantial dataset of brain arteries which could be used by a 3D convolutional neural network to efficiently detect Intra-Cranial Aneurysms. The cerebral aneurysms most often occur on a particular structure of the vascular tree named the Circle of Willis. Various studies have been conducted to detect and monitor the aneurysms and those based on Deep Learning achieve the best performance. Specifically, in this work, we propose a full synthetic 3D model able to mimic the brain vasculature as acquired by Magnetic Resonance Angiography, Time Of Flight principle. Among the various MRI modalities, this latter allows for a good rendering of the blood vessels and is non-invasive. Our model has been designed to simultaneously mimic the arteries' geometry, the aneurysm shape, and the background noise. The vascular tree geometry is modeled thanks to an interpolation with 3D Spline functions, and the statistical properties of the background noise is collected from angiography acquisitions and reproduced within the model. In this work, we thoroughly describe the synthetic vasculature model, we build up a neural network designed for aneurysm segmentation and detection, finally, we carry out an in-depth evaluation of the performance gap gained thanks to the synthetic model data augmentation.
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