仅用一张含噪医学影像,即可实现高质量去噪。
Neighboring Slice Noise2Noise: Self-Supervised Medical Image Denoising from Single Noisy Image Volume
- 利用同一影像序列中相邻切片构建训练数据,无需成对干净图像。
- 在真实医学影像上显著优于现有自监督方法,且处理更快。
- 适用于多种临床设备,避免重建几何差异带来的问题。
近年来,基于卷积神经网络的监督式医学图像去噪方法虽性能提升显著,但需大量含噪-干净图像对训练,实用性受限。尽管已有研究尝试仅用单张含噪图像进行自监督训练,但现有方法(如基于盲区或数据分割的方法)普遍依赖噪声像素独立性假设,该假设在真实医学影像中常不成立。因此,当前仍缺乏简单实用、仅需单个含噪图像体积即可实现高质量去噪的方法。本文提出一种新型自监督医学图像去噪方法——邻近切片噪声到噪声(NS-N2N)。该方法利用单个含噪图像体积内的相邻切片构造加权训练数据,并采用区域一致性损失与切片间连续性损失进行自监督训练。所提方法仅需一次成像采集的单个含噪图像体积,即可实现对该体积的高质量去噪。大量实验表明,该方法在去噪性能和处理效率方面均优于现有最优自监督方法。此外,由于NS-N2N完全在图像域操作,不受重建几何等设备特异性问题影响,更易于在多种临床场景中部署。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
In the last few years, with the rapid development of deep learning technologies, supervised methods based on convolutional neural networks have greatly enhanced the performance of medical image denoising. However, these methods require large quantities of noisy-clean image pairs for training, which greatly limits their practicality. Although some researchers have attempted to train denoising networks using only single noisy images, existing self-supervised methods, including blind-spot-based and data-splitting-based methods, heavily rely on the assumption that noise is pixel-wise independent. However, this assumption often does not hold in real-world medical images. Therefore, in the field of medical imaging, there remains a lack of simple and practical denoising methods that can achieve high-quality denoising performance using only single noisy images. In this paper, we propose a novel self-supervised medical image denoising method, Neighboring Slice Noise2Noise (NS-N2N). The proposed method utilizes neighboring slices within a single noisy image volume to construct weighted training data, and then trains the denoising network using a self-supervised scheme with regional consistency loss and inter-slice continuity loss. NS-N2N only requires a single noisy image volume obtained from one medical imaging procedure to achieve high-quality denoising of the image volume itself. Extensive experiments demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art self-supervised denoising methods in both denoising performance and processing efficiency. Furthermore, since NS-N2N operates solely in the image domain, it is free from device-specific issues such as reconstruction geometry, making it easier to apply in various clinical practices.
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