arXiv:2511.12853eess.IVcs.CV2025-11

用患者自身结构重建无肿瘤脑图像,辅助肿瘤影响分析。

BrainNormalizer: Anatomy-Informed Pseudo-Healthy Brain Reconstruction from Tumor MRI via Edge-Guided ControlNet

  • 基于扩散模型与边缘引导控制网,无须健康对照图即可重建
  • 通过镜像对侧边缘图实现个体化解剖结构保持,提升对称性
  • 适合神经影像学中肿瘤变形分析,可减少误判

脑肿瘤会引起复杂的结构变形,掩盖患者的原始解剖结构,难以区分肿瘤引起的改变与固有解剖变异。重建个体化的伪健康脑图像可为分析提供关键参考,但该任务本质上是反事实的,因为缺乏配对的肿瘤前扫描和明确的健康参考。本文提出BrainNormalizer,一种基于扩散模型的个体化伪健康脑MRI重建框架,可在无需成对数据或显式健康参考的情况下实现解剖信息引导的重建。该框架通过两阶段训练策略学习解剖先验与基于边缘的结构条件:先进行基于修复的扩散微调,再引入基于ControlNet的边缘条件。推理时,通过故意错位策略实现反事实重建——将有肿瘤输入与无肿瘤提示及镜像对侧边缘图配对。由此从患者自身解剖结构中构建个体化解剖引导,实现解剖一致的伪健康重建并保留个体特征。在BraTS2020数据集上的实验表明,BrainNormalizer在分布真实性、基于对称性的结构一致性以及假阳性检测减少方面均优于现有方法。结果表明,该框架为个体化反事实重建提供了原则性方案,支持对肿瘤诱导变形的下游分析。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Brain tumors induce complex structural deformations that obscure the patient' s original neuroanatomy, making it difficult to distinguish tumor-induced changes from inherent anatomical variability. Reconstructing a subject-specific pseudo-healthy brain can provide a critical reference for such analysis, but this task is inherently counterfactual, as paired pre-tumor scans and explicit healthy guidance are unavailable. We propose BrainNormalizer, a diffusion-based framework for subject-specific pseudo-healthy brain MRI reconstruction that enables anatomy-informed reconstruction without requiring paired data or explicit healthy references. The framework learns anatomical priors and edge-based structural conditioning through a two-stage training strategy consisting of inpainting-based diffusion fine-tuning and ControlNet-based edge conditioning. At inference, counterfactual pseudo-healthy reconstruction is achieved through a deliberate misalignment strategy, where tumorous inputs are paired with non-tumorous prompts and mirrored contralateral edge maps. This allows subject-specific anatomical guidance to be constructed from the patient's own anatomy, enabling anatomically consistent pseudo-healthy reconstruction that preserves individual structural characteristics. Experiments on the BraTS2020 dataset demonstrate that BrainNormalizer achieves improved distributional realism, symmetry-based structural consistency, and reduced false positive detection compared to existing methods. These results indicate that the proposed framework provides a principled approach for subject-specific counterfactual reconstruction and supports downstream analysis of tumor-induced deformation.

医学影像扩散模型脑肿瘤伪健康重建

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