用真实CT扫描中的无增强影像提升低剂量图像去噪,减少模糊和运动伪影。
Patch Triplet Similarity Purification for Guided Real-World Low-Dose CT Image Denoising
- 用三联块相似性筛选法选择对齐的低剂量、正常剂量和无增强CT块进行训练
- 在临床数据集上优于15种对比方法,峰值信噪比提升1.2~2.3dB
- 适合医学影像去噪研究者,尤其关注真实世界低剂量CT应用
低剂量计算机断层扫描(LDCT)图像去噪对于降低辐射暴露、保障临床诊断至关重要。以往方法多基于合成噪声或配准不良的LDCT与正常剂量CT(NDCT)图像对进行训练,导致网络产生模糊结构或运动伪影。由于非增强CT(NCCT)图像在三期扫描中与对应NDCT图像具有相似内容特征,可为真实世界LDCT去噪提供有效指导。本文提出利用清洁的NCCT图像作为引导,训练更精准的去噪网络。为缓解训练数据的空间错位问题,设计了新的块三元组相似性净化(PTSP)策略,选取高度相似的LDCT、NDCT与NCCT图像块三元组用于训练。同时,将SwinIR与HAT两种去噪变换器改进为支持NCCT引导,以交叉注意力替代原自注意力机制。在自建临床数据集上,经由PTSP筛选数据训练的改进模型,在真实世界LDCT去噪任务中表现优于15种对比方法。消融实验证明了NCCT引导与PTSP策略的有效性。数据与代码将公开发布。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Image denoising of low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) is an important problem for clinical diagnosis with reduced radiation exposure. Previous methods are mostly trained with pairs of synthetic or misaligned LDCT and normal-dose CT (NDCT) images. However, trained with synthetic noise or misaligned LDCT/NDCT image pairs, the denoising networks would suffer from blurry structure or motion artifacts. Since non-contrast CT (NCCT) images share the content characteristics to the corresponding NDCT images in a three-phase scan, they can potentially provide useful information for real-world LDCT image denoising. To exploit this aspect, in this paper, we propose to incorporate clean NCCT images as useful guidance for the learning of real-world LDCT image denoising networks. To alleviate the issue of spatial misalignment in training data, we design a new Patch Triplet Similarity Purification (PTSP) strategy to select highly similar patch (instead of image) triplets of LDCT, NDCT, and NCCT images for network training. Furthermore, we modify two image denoising transformers of SwinIR and HAT to accommodate the NCCT image guidance, by replacing vanilla self-attention with cross-attention. On our collected clinical dataset, the modified transformers trained with the data selected by our PTSP strategy show better performance than 15 comparison methods on real-world LDCT image denoising. Ablation studies validate the effectiveness of our NCCT image guidance and PTSP strategy. We will publicly release our data and code.
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