arXiv:2511.22094eess.IVcs.CV2025-11

GACELLE让定量MRI分析提速百倍,还更准更易用。

GACELLE: GPU-accelerated tools for model parameter estimation and image reconstruction

  • 基于GPU加速的随机优化与采样算法,提升计算效率。
  • 相比传统CPU方法,最快提速14,380倍,精度不降。
  • 无需编程基础,只需提供信号模型即可使用。

定量MRI(qMRI)可提供可追踪的组织特异性生物标志物,但其在临床研究中的应用受限于参数估计的高计算需求。高空间分辨率或需拟合多个参数的图像常需长时间处理,阻碍了常规流程和方法创新。本文提出GACELLE,一个开源、GPU加速的qMRI高通量分析框架。它在MATLAB中提供随机梯度下降优化器与随机采样器,实现快速参数映射、通过空间正则化提升估计鲁棒性,并支持不确定性量化。GACELLE注重易用性:用户仅需提供前向信号模型,其后端自动处理并行计算、参数更新与内存分批。随机求解器在CPU和GPU上执行完全向量化的马尔可夫链蒙特卡洛,保证硬件间结果可复现。基准测试显示,随机梯度下降求解器最高提速451倍,随机采样最高提速14,380倍,且不损失准确性。我们在三个典型qMRI模型及图像重建任务中验证了GACELLE的通用性,结果显示其提升了参数精度,改善了重测一致性,并降低了定量图噪声。通过结合速度、易用性与灵活性,GACELLE为医学图像分析提供了一个可泛化的优化框架,降低了qMRI的计算门槛,助力可复现的生物标志物开发、大规模影像研究与临床转化。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Quantitative MRI (qMRI) offers tissue-specific biomarkers that can be tracked over time or compared across populations; however, its adoption in clinical research is hindered by significant computational demands of parameter estimation. Images acquired at high spatial resolution or requiring fitting multiple parameters often require lengthy processing time, constraining their use in routine pipelines and slowing methodological innovation and clinical translation. We present GACELLE, an open source, GPU-accelerated framework for high-throughput qMRI analysis. GACELLE provides a stochastic gradient descent optimiser and a stochastic sampler in MATLAB, enabling fast parameter mapping, improved estimation robustness via spatial regularisation, and uncertainty quantification. GACELLE prioritises accessibility: users only need to provide a forward signal model, while GACELLE's backend manages computational parallelisation, automatic parameter updates, and memory-batching. The stochastic solver performs fully vectorised Markov chain Monte Carlo with identical likelihood on CPU and GPU, ensuring reproducibility across hardware. Benchmarking demonstrates up to 451-fold acceleration for the stochastic gradient descent solver and 14,380-fold acceleration for stochastic sampling compared to CPU-based estimation, without compromising accuracy. We demonstrated GACELLE's versatility on three representative qMRI models and on an image reconstruction task. Across these applications, GACELLE improves parameter precision, enhances test-retest reproducibility, and reduces noise in quantitative maps. By combining speed, usability and flexibility, GACELLE provides a generalisable optimisation framework for medical image analysis. It lowers the computational barrier for qMRI, paving the way for reproducible biomarker development, large-scale imaging studies, and clinical translation.

定量MRIGPU加速图像重建生物标志物

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