用自洽嵌套扩散桥,仅凭幅度图像实现超快MRI重建
Self-Consistent Nested Diffusion Bridge for Accelerated MRI Reconstruction
- 构建双向扩散桥,将欠采样与完整幅度图像互译
- 在fastMRI和IXI数据集上超越现有幅度图像重建方法
- 适合临床无法获取原始数据的医学影像重建场景
加速MRI重建对缩短扫描时间、保持图像质量至关重要。现有方法多依赖复数域的图像空间或k空间数据,但这些格式常因专有重建流程无法在临床获取,仅保存幅度图像于DICOM文件中。为此,我们聚焦于少被研究的幅度图像重建任务。尽管扩散模型(如DDPM)在建模图像先验方面表现强劲,但其通用去噪特性限制了在源到目标图像转换任务中的性能。本文提出自洽嵌套扩散桥(SC-NDB)框架,将加速MRI重建视为欠采样与完全采样幅度图像间的双向图像翻译过程。SC-NDB引入嵌套扩散结构、自洽性约束及反向桥接路径,提升中间预测精度,更准确捕捉源图像显式先验。此外,通过轮廓分解嵌入模块(CDEM)利用拉普拉斯金字塔与方向滤波器组注入结构与纹理知识。在fastMRI和IXI数据集上的大量实验表明,本方法在幅度图像重建中达到当前最优性能,验证了SC-NDB的有效性与临床适用性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Accelerated MRI reconstruction plays a vital role in reducing scan time while preserving image quality. While most existing methods rely on complex-valued image-space or k-space data, these formats are often inaccessible in clinical practice due to proprietary reconstruction pipelines, leaving only magnitude images stored in DICOM files. To address this gap, we focus on the underexplored task of magnitude-image-based MRI reconstruction. Recent advancements in diffusion models, particularly denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs), have demonstrated strong capabilities in modeling image priors. However, their task-agnostic denoising nature limits performance in source-to-target image translation tasks, such as MRI reconstruction. In this work, we propose a novel Self-Consistent Nested Diffusion Bridge (SC-NDB) framework that models accelerated MRI reconstruction as a bi-directional image translation process between under-sampled and fully-sampled magnitude MRI images. SC-NDB introduces a nested diffusion architecture with a self-consistency constraint and reverse bridge diffusion pathways to improve intermediate prediction fidelity and better capture the explicit priors of source images. Furthermore, we incorporate a Contour Decomposition Embedding Module (CDEM) to inject structural and textural knowledge by leveraging Laplacian pyramids and directional filter banks. Extensive experiments on the fastMRI and IXI datasets demonstrate that our method achieves state-of-the-art performance compared to both magnitude-based and non-magnitude-based diffusion models, confirming the effectiveness and clinical relevance of SC-NDB.
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