arXiv:2506.13293eess.IV2025-06

用模拟数据监督和对比学习分离脑部磁性源,提升图像清晰度。

SUSEP-Net: Simulation-Supervised and Contrastive Learning-based Deep Neural Networks for Susceptibility Source Separation

  • 双分支U-net结合模拟数据监督与对比学习约束特征一致性。
  • 在仿真与真实数据上均优于三种现有方法,尤其改善出血/钙化对比度。
  • 适合脑部病变分析、高精度磁性源分离研究者使用。

定量磁敏感成像(QSM)可量化人脑磁性分布,但单个体素中顺磁性与抗磁性物质可能相互抵消,导致信息丢失。本研究提出SUSEP-Net,一种基于模拟监督与对比学习的深度神经网络,用于磁性源分离。模型采用双分支U-net结构,通过模拟数据训练,并引入对比学习框架,在编码器引导特征与解码器潜在特征间施加相似性约束。在仿真数据、健康人及病患真实数据上全面测试,结果表明SUSEP-Net在数值指标、高亮出血与钙化病灶对比度、病理脑部伪影抑制方面均优于APART-QSM、{hi-separation与{hi-sepnet。此外,通过琼脂糖凝胶幻影数据验证了其准确性与泛化能力。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM) provides a valuable tool for quantifying susceptibility distributions in human brains; however, two types of opposing susceptibility sources (i.e., paramagnetic and diamagnetic), may coexist in a single voxel, and cancel each other out in net QSM images. Susceptibility source separation techniques enable the extraction of sub-voxel information from QSM maps. This study proposes a novel SUSEP-Net for susceptibility source separation by training a dual-branch U-net with a simulation-supervised training strategy. In addition, a contrastive learning framework is included to explicitly impose similarity-based constraints between the branch-specific guidance features in specially-designed encoders and the latent features in the decoders. Comprehensive experiments were carried out on both simulated and in vivo data, including healthy subjects and patients with pathological conditions, to compare SUSEP-Net with three state-of-the-art susceptibility source separation methods (i.e., APART-QSM, \c{hi}-separation, and \c{hi}-sepnet). SUSEP-Net consistently showed improved results compared with the other three methods, with better numerical metrics, improved high-intensity hemorrhage and calcification lesion contrasts, and reduced artifacts in brains with pathological conditions. In addition, experiments on an agarose gel phantom data were conducted to validate the accuracy and the generalization capability of SUSEP-Net.

磁敏感成像深度学习源分离脑影像

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