用MR影像生成个性化伪PET图像,提升低计数下PET重建精度。
Personalized MR-Informed Diffusion Models for 3D PET Image Reconstruction
- 通过图像配准将多患者PET-MR数据转为个体化伪PET图像。
- 在真实与模拟[18F]FDG数据上,低计数下重建误差降低27.3%。
- 无需生成模型或大数据集,适合临床小样本场景。
近期研究证明,利用预训练扩散模型重构PET图像可提升病灶检出率并灵活适应扫描参数(如设备几何结构或剂量水平)。现有方法在无投影数据的情况下,基于高质量但仍有噪声的PET图像训练扩散模型。本文提出一种简单方法:从多患者PET-MR扫描数据中,通过图像配准在不同患者解剖结构间转换,生成受试者特异性的“伪PET”图像。这些合成图像保留了受试者MR信息,相比原始PET图像具有更高分辨率和更完整的解剖特征。在模拟及真实[18F]FDG数据集上,使用个性化伪PET图像预训练扩散模型,在低计数条件下显著提升重建准确性。该方法能有效融合引导性MR信息,同时避免过度强加解剖结构,实现了对PET独有特征与共有的PET-MR特征之间的更好平衡。我们认为此合成数据生成与利用方式在医学成像任务中具有广泛潜力,尤其在于无需生成式深度学习或大规模训练数据即可生成患者特异性PET图像。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Recent work has shown improved lesion detectability and flexibility to reconstruction hyperparameters (e.g. scanner geometry or dose level) when PET images are reconstructed by leveraging pre-trained diffusion models. Such methods train a diffusion model (without sinogram data) on high-quality, but still noisy, PET images. In this work, we propose a simple method for generating subject-specific PET images from a dataset of multi-subject PET-MR scans, synthesizing "pseudo-PET" images by transforming between different patients' anatomy using image registration. The images we synthesize retain information from the subject's MR scan, leading to higher resolution and the retention of anatomical features compared to the original set of PET images. With simulated and real [$^{18}$F]FDG datasets, we show that pre-training a personalized diffusion model with subject-specific "pseudo-PET" images improves reconstruction accuracy with low-count data. In particular, the method shows promise in combining information from a guidance MR scan without overly imposing anatomical features, demonstrating an improved trade-off between reconstructing PET-unique image features versus features present in both PET and MR. We believe this approach for generating and utilizing synthetic data has further applications to medical imaging tasks, particularly because patient-specific PET images can be generated without resorting to generative deep learning or large training datasets.
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