用图结构建模心脏MRI缺失切片的上下文关系,提升重建精度。
SAGCNet: Spatial-Aware Graph Completion Network for Missing Slice Imputation in Population CMR Imaging
- 构建切片图结构,显式建模切片间空间依赖关系。
- 在仅有部分切片时仍保持高性能,优于现有方法。
- 适合低数据量下的心脏MRI补全任务,医学影像领域适用。
磁共振成像(MRI)能提供精细的软组织特征,有助于疾病诊断与筛查。然而,由于各种因素导致的切片缺失或不可用,常影响临床准确性。为解决此问题,已发展出基于体数据的MRI合成方法,通过可用切片补全缺失切片。心脏磁共振(CMR)的3D体数据特性给缺失切片补全带来挑战:(1)难以建模切片间的局部相关性与依赖性;(2)对关键3D空间信息和全局上下文利用不足。为此,本文提出空间感知图补全网络(SAGCNet),具有两大创新:(1)体切片图补全模块,将切片间关系构建成图结构;(2)体空间适配器组件,有效捕捉并利用多种3D空间上下文。在多个心脏MRI数据集上的实验表明,SAGCNet可有效合成缺失的CMR切片,在定量与定性指标上均优于现有先进方法,尤其在切片数据有限时仍表现优异。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provides detailed soft-tissue characteristics that assist in disease diagnosis and screening. However, the accuracy of clinical practice is often hindered by missing or unusable slices due to various factors. Volumetric MRI synthesis methods have been developed to address this issue by imputing missing slices from available ones. The inherent 3D nature of volumetric MRI data, such as cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR), poses significant challenges for missing slice imputation approaches, including (1) the difficulty of modeling local inter-slice correlations and dependencies of volumetric slices, and (2) the limited exploration of crucial 3D spatial information and global context. In this study, to mitigate these issues, we present Spatial-Aware Graph Completion Network (SAGCNet) to overcome the dependency on complete volumetric data, featuring two main innovations: (1) a volumetric slice graph completion module that incorporates the inter-slice relationships into a graph structure, and (2) a volumetric spatial adapter component that enables our model to effectively capture and utilize various forms of 3D spatial context. Extensive experiments on cardiac MRI datasets demonstrate that SAGCNet is capable of synthesizing absent CMR slices, outperforming competitive state-of-the-art MRI synthesis methods both quantitatively and qualitatively. Notably, our model maintains superior performance even with limited slice data.
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