arXiv:2510.00660cs.CV2025-10

提出无监督可解释的超声微血管成像去杂波方法,提升血流信号分离效果。

Unsupervised Unfolded rPCA (U2-rPCA): Deep Interpretable Clutter Filtering for Ultrasound Microvascular Imaging

  • 基于IRLS的rPCA迭代展开,融合低秩与稀疏正则化设计网络结构。
  • 在仿真和真实数据上实现信噪比提升1.91~8.48 dB,优于传统方法。
  • 无需标注数据,模块可解释,适合医学超声图像处理场景。

高灵敏度去杂波是超声微血管成像的关键步骤。主成分分析(SVD)和鲁棒主成分分析(rPCA)是主流方法,但对组织与血流特征建模能力有限。近年来深度学习方法在分离血流与组织信号方面展现潜力,但现有监督方法面临可解释性差与训练真值缺失问题。本文提出无监督展开式rPCA(U2-rPCA),保留数学可解释性且不依赖标签。该方法从迭代重加权最小二乘(IRLS)rPCA基线展开,引入低秩与稀疏正则化,并在网络中嵌入稀疏增强单元以强化对稀疏微流信号的捕捉。U2-rPCA作为自适应滤波器,通过部分序列训练后用于后续帧处理。在仿真数据集及公开体内数据集上的实验表明,其性能优于SVD、rPCA基线和另一深度学习方法。尤其在功率多普勒图像中,对比噪声比(CNR)提升1.91~8.48 dB。消融实验证明各模块有效性。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

High-sensitivity clutter filtering is a fundamental step in ultrasound microvascular imaging. Singular value decomposition (SVD) and robust principal component analysis (rPCA) are the main clutter filtering strategies. However, both strategies are limited in feature modeling and separation of tissue and blood flow for high-quality microvascular imaging. Recently, deep learning-based clutter filtering has shown potential in more thoroughly separating tissue and blood flow signals. However, the existing supervised filters face the lack of interpretability and the training ground truth. While the interpretability issue can be addressed by algorithm deep unfolding, the training ground truth remains unsolved. This paper proposes an unsupervised unfolded rPCA (U2-rPCA) method that preserves mathematical interpretability and is insusceptible to learning labels. Specifically, U2-rPCA is unfolded from an iteratively reweighted least squares (IRLS) rPCA baseline with intrinsic low-rank and sparse regularization. In addition, a sparse-enhancement unit is plugged into the network to strengthen its capability to capture the sparse micro-flow signals. U2-rPCA is like an adaptive filter that is trained with part of the image sequence and then used for the following frames. Experimental validations on a in-silico dataset and public in-vivo datasets demonstrated the outperformance of U2-rPCA when compared with the SVD filter, the rPCA baseline, and another deep learning-based filter. Particularly, the proposed method improved the contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR) of the power Doppler image by 1.91 dB to 8.48 dB compared to other methods. Furthermore, the effectiveness of the building modules of U2-rPCA was validated through ablation studies.

超声成像去杂波深度学习可解释性

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