arXiv:2511.13183cs.CV2025-11

用生成模型做脑白质纤维追踪,精度比现有方法高1.8到3.5倍。

GenTract: Generative Global Tractography

  • 把纤维追踪建模为从dMRI直接生成完整轨迹的生成任务
  • 在低分辨率和噪声数据下精度提升达3.5倍,优于主流方法
  • 适合需要高精度且处理低质量数据的研究场景

纤维追踪是从扩散磁共振成像(dMRI)推断大脑白质通路轨迹的过程。局部方法通过逐步跟随局部纤维方向估计构建路径,易累积误差且假阳性率高,尤其在噪声大或分辨率低的数据上表现差。全局方法虽能优化多条路径以匹配纤维方向,但计算成本高。为此,我们提出GenTract,首个用于全局纤维追踪的生成模型。将追踪任务建模为从dMRI直接生成解剖合理路径的生成过程,对比了基于扩散和流匹配的范式。在与最先进基线方法的对比中,GenTract的精度分别达到DDTracking和TractOracle的1.8倍和2.1倍;在低分辨率和噪声环境下优势更显著,领先最接近对手达3.5倍。GenTract在研究级数据上实现高精度,在低质量数据上仍具鲁棒性,是全局追踪的有力解决方案。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Tractography is the process of inferring the trajectories of white-matter pathways in the brain from diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI). Local tractography methods, which construct streamlines by following local fiber orientation estimates stepwise through an image, are prone to error accumulation and high false positive rates, particularly on noisy or low-resolution data. In contrast, global methods, which attempt to optimize a collection of streamlines to maximize compatibility with underlying fiber orientation estimates, are computationally expensive. To address these challenges, we introduce GenTract, the first generative model for global tractography. We frame tractography as a generative task, learning a direct mapping from dMRI to complete, anatomically plausible streamlines. We compare both diffusion-based and flow matching paradigms and evaluate GenTract's performance against state-of-the-art baselines. Notably, GenTract achieves precision 1.8x and 2.1x higher than the next-best methods, DDTracking and TractOracle, respectively. This advantage becomes even more pronounced in challenging low-resolution and noisy settings, where it outperforms the closest competitor by a factor of 3.5. By producing tractograms with high precision on research-grade data while also maintaining reliability on imperfect, lower-resolution data, GenTract represents a promising solution for global tractography.

纤维追踪生成模型dMRI脑连接组

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