arXiv:2507.05670cs.CV2025-07

用扩散模型逆向重建脑损伤前的健康状态,区分受损与变形组织。

Modeling and Reversing Brain Lesions Using Diffusion Models

  • 基于扩散模型构建反向修复流程,分离损伤与形变区域。
  • 相比传统方法,分割准确率与脑区标注效果显著提升。
  • 适合神经影像研究与临床辅助诊断,尤其关注损伤机制解析。

脑病变是脑组织中的异常或损伤,通常可通过磁共振成像(MRI)检测到,表现为病灶区域的结构改变。该定义涵盖不可逆损伤区及因病灶生长或肿胀导致的组织变形区。现有病变分割方法忽视此区别,将两者统一标记为单一异常。本文提出一种基于扩散模型的框架,用于分析并逆转脑病变过程。该流程首先分割脑部异常区域,随后通过恢复移位组织至原始位置,估计并逆转组织形变,从而分离出代表初始损伤的核心病变区。最后,对核心病变区进行图像修复,生成病变前健康脑组织的估计结果。该框架逆向重构了已在生物力学研究中建立的正向病变增长模型。实验表明,该方法在病变分割、特征刻画与脑区标注方面均优于传统方法,为临床与科研应用提供了稳健工具。由于缺乏公开数据集提供病变前健康脑图像以验证逆向过程,我们通过模拟正向模型生成多个病变脑图像用于训练与评估。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Brain lesions are abnormalities or injuries in brain tissue that are often detectable using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), which reveals structural changes in the affected areas. This broad definition of brain lesions includes areas of the brain that are irreversibly damaged, as well as areas of brain tissue that are deformed as a result of lesion growth or swelling. Despite the importance of differentiating between damaged and deformed tissue, existing lesion segmentation methods overlook this distinction, labeling both of them as a single anomaly. In this work, we introduce a diffusion model-based framework for analyzing and reversing the brain lesion process. Our pipeline first segments abnormal regions in the brain, then estimates and reverses tissue deformations by restoring displaced tissue to its original position, isolating the core lesion area representing the initial damage. Finally, we inpaint the core lesion area to arrive at an estimation of the pre-lesion healthy brain. This proposed framework reverses a forward lesion growth process model that is well-established in biomechanical studies that model brain lesions. Our results demonstrate improved accuracy in lesion segmentation, characterization, and brain labeling compared to traditional methods, offering a robust tool for clinical and research applications in brain lesion analysis. Since pre-lesion healthy versions of abnormal brains are not available in any public dataset for validation of the reverse process, we simulate a forward model to synthesize multiple lesioned brain images.

脑病变扩散模型图像逆向医学影像

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