arXiv:2507.03937eess.IVcs.AI2025-07

轻量级框架实现实时超声去斑增强,适合便携设备部署。

EdgeSRIE: A hybrid deep learning framework for real-time speckle reduction and image enhancement on portable ultrasound systems

  • 分两支:无监督去斑 + 去模糊,联合优化图像质量。
  • 在体外与体内数据上实现最高CNR与平均梯度值。
  • 8位整数量化后推理速度超60帧/秒,参数少于2万。

超声图像中的散斑会掩盖解剖细节,导致诊断不确定性。尽管已有多种深度学习方法有效抑制散斑,但其高计算开销限制了在低资源设备(如便携式超声系统)上的应用。为此,提出EdgeSRIE——一种面向便携超声成像的轻量级混合深度学习框架,支持实时去斑与图像增强。该框架包含两个主分支:基于无监督学习的去斑分支,通过最小化含斑图像间的损失函数训练;以及用于恢复模糊图像的去模糊分支。针对硬件部署,训练模型被量化至8位整数精度,并部署于功耗受限的系统级芯片(SoC)。在体模与活体实验中,EdgeSRIE相比其他基于规则的方法及四种深度学习基线,在对比噪声比(CNR)和平均梯度幅值(AGM)上均表现最优。此外,该框架在真实便携超声硬件上实现超过60帧/秒的实时推理,且满足计算需求(<20K参数)。结果表明,EdgeSRIE可在资源受限环境下实现高质量、实时超声成像。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Speckle patterns in ultrasound images often obscure anatomical details, leading to diagnostic uncertainty. Recently, various deep learning (DL)-based techniques have been introduced to effectively suppress speckle; however, their high computational costs pose challenges for low-resource devices, such as portable ultrasound systems. To address this issue, EdgeSRIE, which is a lightweight hybrid DL framework for real-time speckle reduction and image enhancement in portable ultrasound imaging, is introduced. The proposed framework consists of two main branches: an unsupervised despeckling branch, which is trained by minimizing a loss function between speckled images, and a deblurring branch, which restores blurred images to sharp images. For hardware implementation, the trained network is quantized to 8-bit integer precision and deployed on a low-resource system-on-chip (SoC) with limited power consumption. In the performance evaluation with phantom and in vivo analyses, EdgeSRIE achieved the highest contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR) and average gradient magnitude (AGM) compared with the other baselines (different 2-rule-based methods and other 4-DL-based methods). Furthermore, EdgeSRIE enabled real-time inference at over 60 frames per second while satisfying computational requirements (< 20K parameters) on actual portable ultrasound hardware. These results demonstrated the feasibility of EdgeSRIE for real-time, high-quality ultrasound imaging in resource-limited environments.

超声成像轻量模型实时处理边缘计算

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