arXiv:2506.16934eess.IVcs.CV2025-06

用纹理条件扩散变换器分离多示踪剂PET信号,提升成像精度。

PET Tracer Separation Using Conditional Diffusion Transformer with Multi-latent Space Learning

  • 设计多隐空间纹理条件扩散变换器,结合图像细节与先验特征。
  • 在脑部和胸部三维PET数据集上,图像质量与临床信息保留优于对比方法。
  • 适合需要精准示踪剂分离的医学影像研究者使用。

临床中常用单示踪剂正电子发射断层扫描(PET)成像。尽管多示踪剂PET可提供对生理功能变化敏感的补充信息,实现更全面的生理与病理状态表征,但不同示踪剂在正电子湮灭反应中产生的伽马光子对能量相同,难以区分其信号。本文提出一种多隐空间引导的纹理条件扩散变换器模型(MS-CDT),首次将纹理条件与多隐空间机制应用于PET示踪剂分离。该模型融合扩散与Transformer架构,在统一优化框架中引入纹理掩码作为条件输入,增强图像细节。通过利用不同示踪剂的多隐空间先验,捕捉多层次特征表示,兼顾计算效率与细节保留。纹理掩码作为条件引导,帮助模型聚焦显著结构模式,提升细粒度纹理的提取与利用。结合扩散变换器主干网络,该条件机制显著提高分离准确性与鲁棒性。在两个3D PET数据集(脑部与胸部扫描)上评估,结果表明MS-CDT在图像质量与临床相关信息保留方面表现优异。代码已开源:https://github.com/yqx7150/MS-CDT。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

In clinical practice, single-radiotracer positron emission tomography (PET) is commonly used for imaging. Although multi-tracer PET imaging can provide supplementary information of radiotracers that are sensitive to physiological function changes, enabling a more comprehensive characterization of physiological and pathological states, the gamma-photon pairs generated by positron annihilation reactions of different tracers in PET imaging have the same energy, making it difficult to distinguish the tracer signals. In this study, a multi-latent space guided texture conditional diffusion transformer model (MS-CDT) is proposed for PET tracer separation. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt to use texture condition and multi-latent space for tracer separation in PET imaging. The proposed model integrates diffusion and transformer architectures into a unified optimization framework, with the novel addition of texture masks as conditional inputs to enhance image details. By leveraging multi-latent space prior derived from different tracers, the model captures multi-level feature representations, aiming to balance computational efficiency and detail preservation. The texture masks, serving as conditional guidance, help the model focus on salient structural patterns, thereby improving the extraction and utilization of fine-grained image textures. When combined with the diffusion transformer backbone, this conditioning mechanism contributes to more accurate and robust tracer separation. To evaluate its effectiveness, the proposed MS-CDT is compared with several advanced methods on two types of 3D PET datasets: brain and chest scans. Experimental results indicate that MS-CDT achieved competitive performance in terms of image quality and preservation of clinically relevant information. Code is available at: https://github.com/yqx7150/MS-CDT.

PET成像扩散模型图像分离医学影像

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