arXiv:2504.18442eess.IVcs.CV2025-04

通过高分辨率影像指导,提升脑部核磁图像的分割精度,助力阿尔茨海默病早期诊断。

Imaging Biomarkers for Neurodegenerative Diseases from Detailed Segmentation of Medial Temporal Lobe Subregions on in vivo Brain MRI Using Upsampling Strategy Guided by High-resolution ex vivo MRI

  • 融合T1w与T2w MRI,用体素级上采样构建近各向同性数据集。
  • 新模型在轻度认知障碍与正常人区分上准确率更高,纵向稳定性更强。
  • 适合研究阿尔茨海默病早期生物标志物或影像分析的科研人员。

内侧颞叶(MTL)是阿尔茨海默病(AD)早期广泛且非均匀受累的区域。基于磁共振成像(MRI)提取的MTL形态学指标对AD及相关疾病(ADRD)的诊断具有支持作用。不同MRI模态在MTL形态测量中各有优势:各向异性T2w MRI因其对海马层间对比度高,更适合海马亚区分割;各向同性T1w MRI则因图像质量稳定、分辨率均匀,更适用于海马外亚区厚度计算。本文提出一种多模态MTL分割算法,通过将T1w和T2w图像统一至近各向同性体素空间,实现跨模态融合。该方法以9.4T高分辨率离体MRI为指导,设计了上采样模型,并结合非局部均值上采样,构建用于训练的近各向同性T1w和T2w MTL亚区分割数据集,进而训练nnUNet模型。相比传统在各向异性空间运行的模型,本方法提取的形态学生物标志物在区分轻度认知障碍患者与认知正常个体方面表现更优,且具有更强的纵向稳定性。结果表明,经上采样至近各向同性分辨率的T1w和T2w MRI所提取的生物标志物,在改善ADRD诊断与疾病进展监测方面具有显著潜力。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

The medial temporal lobe (MTL) is a region impacted extensively and non-uniformly in early stages of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Regional MTL morphometric measures extracted from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are supportive features for the diagnosis of AD and related disorders (ADRD). Different MRI modalities have distinct advantages for MTL morphometry. Anisotropic T2-weighted (T2w) MRI is preferred for hippocampal subfields due to its higher contrast between hippocampal layers. Isotropic T1-weighted (T1w) MRI is beneficial for thickness calculation of extra-hippocampal subregions due to its stable image quality and isotropic resolution. We propose a multi-modality MTL segmentation algorithm that bridges the T1w and T2w modalities by bringing both to a nearly isotropic voxel space. Guided by high-resolution ex vivo 9.4T MRI, an upsampling model was designed for the ground truth segmentations. Combined with non-local means upsampling, this model was used to construct a nearly iso-tropic T1w and T2w MTL subregion segmentation training set, which was used to train a nnUNet model. Morphometric biomarkers extracted by this model were compared to those extracted using conventional models operating in anisotropic spaces on downstream tasks. Biomarkers extracted using the proposed model had greater ability to discriminate between individuals with mild cognitive impairment and cognitively unimpaired; and had great-er longitudinal stability. These findings suggest that the biomarkers derived from T1w and T2w MRI unsampled to nearly isotropic resolution have sig-nificant potential for improving disease diagnosis and monitoring disease progression in ADRD.

阿尔茨海默病影像分割生物标志物MRI

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