3D扩散模型可通用处理低剂量少视角心脏SPECT成像,无需重新训练。
A Generalizable 3D Diffusion Framework for Low-Dose and Few-View Cardiac SPECT
- 基于投影与图像数据的协同一致性策略,实现跨设置泛化。
- 在1%~50%剂量、1~9视角下均保持临床诊断性能。
- 支持全剂量图像增强,适合临床低剂量筛查流程。
使用SPECT进行心肌灌注成像广泛用于冠心病诊断,但低剂量和少视角采集会降低图像质量。尽管已有多种深度学习方法用于提升此类数据的图像质量,但以往方法通常无法跨不同采集设置泛化,限制了实际应用。本文提出DiffSPECT-3D,一种面向3D心脏SPECT成像的扩散框架,可在不重新训练或微调的情况下适应不同采集条件。该方法利用图像与投影数据,设计一致性策略,确保每一步扩散采样均与低剂量/少视角投影测量值、图像数据及扫描仪几何一致,从而实现跨设置泛化。结合CT提供的解剖空间信息与总变差约束,提出2.5D条件策略,使模型可感知整幅3D图像的上下文信息,缓解扩散模型的3D内存瓶颈。我们在795名患者的1,325例临床99mTc tetrofosmin负荷/静息研究上进行了广泛评估,每例重建为5种低计数(1%~50%)和5种少视角(1~9视图)水平。经冠脉造影结果和核医学心脏病专家诊断意见验证,该方法在不损害临床性能的前提下,具备实现低剂量与少视角SPECT成像的潜力。此外,DiffSPECT-3D可直接应用于全剂量SPECT图像,进一步提升图像质量,尤其适用于低剂量负荷优先的心脏SPECT检查流程。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Myocardial perfusion imaging using SPECT is widely utilized to diagnose coronary artery diseases, but image quality can be negatively affected in low-dose and few-view acquisition settings. Although various deep learning methods have been introduced to improve image quality from low-dose or few-view SPECT data, previous approaches often fail to generalize across different acquisition settings, limiting their applicability in reality. This work introduced DiffSPECT-3D, a diffusion framework for 3D cardiac SPECT imaging that effectively adapts to different acquisition settings without requiring further network re-training or fine-tuning. Using both image and projection data, a consistency strategy is proposed to ensure that diffusion sampling at each step aligns with the low-dose/few-view projection measurements, the image data, and the scanner geometry, thus enabling generalization to different low-dose/few-view settings. Incorporating anatomical spatial information from CT and total variation constraint, we proposed a 2.5D conditional strategy to allow the DiffSPECT-3D to observe 3D contextual information from the entire image volume, addressing the 3D memory issues in diffusion model. We extensively evaluated the proposed method on 1,325 clinical 99mTc tetrofosmin stress/rest studies from 795 patients. Each study was reconstructed into 5 different low-count and 5 different few-view levels for model evaluations, ranging from 1% to 50% and from 1 view to 9 view, respectively. Validated against cardiac catheterization results and diagnostic comments from nuclear cardiologists, the presented results show the potential to achieve low-dose and few-view SPECT imaging without compromising clinical performance. Additionally, DiffSPECT-3D could be directly applied to full-dose SPECT images to further improve image quality, especially in a low-dose stress-first cardiac SPECT imaging protocol.
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