用扩散模型修复非门控CT中的钙化斑块运动伪影,提升心血管风险评估精度。
ProDM: Synthetic Reality-driven Property-aware Progressive Diffusion Model for Coronary Calcium Motion Correction in Non-gated Chest CT
- 通过仿真生成带运动伪影的非门控CT数据,实现无配对训练的监督学习。
- 引入钙化特异性一致性损失,保持斑块结构完整性,提升定位准确性。
- 渐进式修正策略降低伪影,适合临床常规胸部CT的钙化量化分析。
从胸部CT进行冠状动脉钙化(CAC)评分是评估心血管疾病风险的重要工具,其准确性依赖于钙化病灶的精确勾画,但常受心脏和呼吸运动引起的伪影干扰。尽管心电门控心脏CT能显著减少伪影,但因其门控要求和医保覆盖不足,难以用于大规模筛查。而从非门控胸部CT中识别偶然发现的CAC虽具可及性,却面临更严重的运动伪影问题。本文提出ProDM(Property-aware Progressive Correction Diffusion Model),一种生成式扩散框架,可从非门控CT中恢复无伪影的钙化病灶。ProDM包含三个关键组件:(1) 基于门控CT合成多样化运动轨迹的钙化运动仿真数据引擎,实现无需配对数据的监督训练;(2) 通过可微钙化一致性损失引入钙化特异性先验,保留病灶完整性;(3) 渐进式修正机制在扩散过程中逐步减少伪影,增强稳定性和钙化保真度。在真实患者数据集上的实验表明,ProDM显著提升了CAC评分精度、空间病灶保真度及风险分层性能,优于多个基线方法。真实非门控扫描的阅片研究进一步证实,ProDM有效抑制运动伪影,改善临床可用性。这些结果凸显了渐进式、属性感知框架在常规胸部CT中可靠量化CAC的潜力。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Coronary artery calcium (CAC) scoring from chest CT is a well-established tool to stratify and refine clinical cardiovascular disease risk estimation. CAC quantification relies on the accurate delineation of calcified lesions, but is oftentimes affected by artifacts introduced by cardiac and respiratory motion. ECG-gated cardiac CTs substantially reduce motion artifacts, but their use in population screening and routine imaging remains limited due to gating requirements and lack of insurance coverage. Although identification of incidental CAC from non-gated chest CT is increasingly considered for it offers an accessible and widely available alternative, this modality is limited by more severe motion artifacts. We present ProDM (Property-aware Progressive Correction Diffusion Model), a generative diffusion framework that restores motion-free calcified lesions from non-gated CTs. ProDM introduces three key components: (1) a CAC motion simulation data engine that synthesizes realistic non-gated acquisitions with diverse motion trajectories directly from cardiac-gated CTs, enabling supervised training without paired data; (2) a property-aware learning strategy incorporating calcium-specific priors through a differentiable calcium consistency loss to preserve lesion integrity; and (3) a progressive correction scheme that reduces artifacts gradually across diffusion steps to enhance stability and calcium fidelity. Experiments on real patient datasets show that ProDM significantly improves CAC scoring accuracy, spatial lesion fidelity, and risk stratification performance compared with several baselines. A reader study on real non-gated scans further confirms that ProDM suppresses motion artifacts and improves clinical usability. These findings highlight the potential of progressive, property-aware frameworks for reliable CAC quantification from routine chest CT imaging.
Thank you to arXiv for use of its open access interoperability. PaperDance 不是 arXiv 官方产品;中文卡片由大模型生成,请以原文为准。