arXiv:2412.04324physics.med-phcs.CV2024-12中稿 · as a poster presen…被引 1

用多病人MRI配准生成高质伪PET图像,提升单病人重建效果。

Multi-Subject Image Synthesis as a Generative Prior for Single-Subject PET Image Reconstruction

  • 通过多病人MR配准将PET图像对齐,生成多样化伪PET数据。
  • 重建后图像噪声更低,背景更干净,视觉质量优于传统方法。
  • 适合缺乏真实训练数据的医学影像重建任务,尤其适用于低剂量PET。

高质量医学图像数据集难以获取,但对深度学习应用至关重要。正电子发射断层扫描(PET)的重建质量受限于固有的泊松噪声。本文提出一种新方法,可合成多样且逼真的伪PET图像,提升信噪比。首先,对多病人的磁共振(MR)与对应PET图像进行基于深度学习的可变形配准;随后利用解剖学学习到的形变场将多个PET图像变换至统一参考空间,并对随机子集进行平均,生成大量变化的伪PET图像。相比原始图像,这些伪图像因使用了MR信息而具备更优的解剖细节。进一步将伪PET图像用于单病人重建,作为扩散模型的生成先验进行训练。2D重建结果表明,本方法在视觉质量上优于OSEM、MAP-EM及现有最先进的扩散模型方法,显著降低背景噪声。该方法展示了在生成式重建框架中融入高度个体化先验信息的潜力。未来工作可对比本方法与显式基于MR引导的重建策略的优劣。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Large high-quality medical image datasets are difficult to acquire but necessary for many deep learning applications. For positron emission tomography (PET), reconstructed image quality is limited by inherent Poisson noise. We propose a novel method for synthesising diverse and realistic pseudo-PET images with improved signal-to-noise ratio. We also show how our pseudo-PET images may be exploited as a generative prior for single-subject PET image reconstruction. Firstly, we perform deep-learned deformable registration of multi-subject magnetic resonance (MR) images paired to multi-subject PET images. We then use the anatomically-learned deformation fields to transform multiple PET images to the same reference space, before averaging random subsets of the transformed multi-subject data to form a large number of varying pseudo-PET images. We observe that using MR information for registration imbues the resulting pseudo-PET images with improved anatomical detail compared to the originals. We consider applications to PET image reconstruction, by generating pseudo-PET images in the same space as the intended single-subject reconstruction and using them as training data for a diffusion model-based reconstruction method. We show visual improvement and reduced background noise in our 2D reconstructions as compared to OSEM, MAP-EM and an existing state-of-the-art diffusion model-based approach. Our method shows the potential for utilising highly subject-specific prior information within a generative reconstruction framework. Future work may compare the benefits of our approach to explicitly MR-guided reconstruction methodologies.

PET重建生成先验伪数据扩散模型

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