arXiv:2502.15064physics.med-pheess.IV2025-02被引 1

用伪逆扩散模型加速低剂量CT重建,更省计算且更像真实医学影像。

Pseudoinverse Diffusion Models for Generative CT Image Reconstruction from Low Dose Data

  • 设计新型前向过程,匹配低剂量CT噪声特性而非白噪声。
  • 仅需少量评分函数评估即可生成高质量图像,效率显著提升。
  • 保留临床熟悉的噪声纹理,适合医疗场景快速重建应用。

基于分数的扩散模型在图像生成中取得显著进展,条件测量模型也被用于CT重建等反问题。然而传统方法以白噪声为终点,常需大量反向更新步骤和评分函数计算。为此,我们提出一种新前向过程,其噪声特性与低剂量CT重建相匹配,而非收敛至白噪声。该方法大幅减少评分函数评估次数,提升效率,并保持放射科医生熟悉的噪声纹理。本文严格定义了矩阵控制的随机过程,并通过计算实验验证。利用来自癌症基因组图谱肝细胞癌(TCGA-LIHC)的数据集,模拟低剂量CT测量并训练模型,与基线标量扩散过程及条件扩散模型对比。结果表明,伪逆扩散模型在效率和生成质量方面均更优,能在极少评分函数评估下产出符合临床习惯的高保真图像。该工作推动了高效、临床可用的扩散模型在医学成像中的应用,尤其适用于需要快速重建或降低辐射暴露的场景。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Score-based diffusion models have significantly advanced generative deep learning for image processing. Measurement conditioned models have also been applied to inverse problems such as CT reconstruction. However, the conventional approach, culminating in white noise, often requires a high number of reverse process update steps and score function evaluations. To address this limitation, we propose an alternative forward process in score-based diffusion models that aligns with the noise characteristics of low-dose CT reconstructions, rather than converging to white noise. This method significantly reduces the number of required score function evaluations, enhancing efficiency and maintaining familiar noise textures for radiologists, Our approach not only accelerates the generative process but also retains CT noise correlations, a key aspect often criticized by clinicians for deep learning reconstructions. In this work, we rigorously define a matrix-controlled stochastic process for this purpose and validate it through computational experiments. Using a dataset from The Cancer Genome Atlas Liver Hepatocellular Carcinoma (TCGA-LIHC), we simulate low-dose CT measurements and train our model, comparing it with a baseline scalar diffusion process and conditional diffusion model. Our results demonstrate the superiority of our pseudoinverse diffusion model in terms of efficiency and the ability to produce high-quality reconstructions that are familiar in texture to medical professionals in a low number of score function evaluations. This advancement paves the way for more efficient and clinically practical diffusion models in medical imaging, particularly beneficial in scenarios demanding rapid reconstructions or lower radiation exposure.

CT重建扩散模型低剂量成像

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