让扩散模型更精准生成脑卒中病变区域,提升CT转MRI的诊断价值。
Lesion-Aware Post-Training of Latent Diffusion Models for Synthesizing Diffusion MRI from CT Perfusion
- 在潜空间中加入病灶感知目标,增强病变细节重建
- 在817例患者数据上,显著提升DWI/ADC图像质量与病灶边界精度
- 可适配已有模型,适用于多种医学影像转换任务
图像到图像转换模型能缓解医学影像采集中的诸多挑战。潜空间扩散模型(LDMs)在压缩潜空间中高效学习,是当前先进生成模型的核心。然而,这种效率带来代价:可能牺牲对高保真医学图像至关重要的像素级细节。这一局限在生成仅占图像小部分的病变结构时尤为突出,重建不准确会严重损害诊断可靠性与临床决策。为此,我们提出一种新型的后训练框架,通过引入病灶感知的像素空间目标,改进医学图像到图像转换中的LDM。该方法不仅提升整体图像质量,还显著改善病灶勾画精度。我们在急性缺血性卒中患者的脑部CT到MRI转换任务中进行评估,早期准确诊断对治疗选择和患者预后至关重要。尽管弥散加权成像(DWI)和表观扩散系数(ADC)图像是卒中诊断金标准,但其临床应用常受限于高昂成本与低可及性。基于817例患者数据,我们的方法在从灌注CT合成DWI与ADC图像时,优于现有图像转换模型,同时具有良好的可迁移性,适用于多种医学影像转换场景。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Image-to-Image translation models can help mitigate various challenges inherent to medical image acquisition. Latent diffusion models (LDMs) leverage efficient learning in compressed latent space and constitute the core of state-of-the-art generative image models. However, this efficiency comes with a trade-off, potentially compromising crucial pixel-level detail essential for high-fidelity medical images. This limitation becomes particularly critical when generating clinically significant structures, such as lesions, which often occupy only a small portion of the image. Failure to accurately reconstruct these regions can severely impact diagnostic reliability and clinical decision-making. To overcome this limitation, we propose a novel post-training framework for LDMs in medical image-to-image translation by incorporating lesion-aware medical pixel space objectives. This approach is essential, as it not only enhances overall image quality but also improves the precision of lesion delineation. We evaluate our framework on brain CT-to-MRI translation in acute ischemic stroke patients, where early and accurate diagnosis is critical for optimal treatment selection and improved patient outcomes. While diffusion MRI is the gold standard for stroke diagnosis, its clinical utility is often constrained by high costs and low accessibility. Using a dataset of 817 patients, we demonstrate that our framework improves overall image quality and enhances lesion delineation when synthesizing DWI and ADC images from CT perfusion scans, outperforming existing image-to-image translation models. Furthermore, our post-training strategy is easily adaptable to pre-trained LDMs and exhibits substantial potential for broader applications across diverse medical image translation tasks.
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