针对超声图像混合噪声与模糊,提出双编码器去噪框架,有效降噪并保留细节。
DEMIX: Dual-Encoder Latent Masking Framework for Mixed Noise Reduction in Ultrasound Imaging
- 采用双编码器与掩码门控融合机制,分离并抑制不同噪声成分。
- 在两个数据集上均优于现有方法,显著降低噪声且保持结构细节。
- 适合医学影像处理人员,尤其关注超声图像质量提升者。
超声成像因其高效、便携及无电离辐射特性广泛用于非侵入性医疗诊断,但信号质量受限于多种退化因素:与信号相关的斑点噪声、与信号无关的传感器噪声,以及由换能器引起的非均匀空间模糊(由点扩散函数PSF建模)。这些退化挑战了传统图像恢复方法所依赖的简化噪声模型,凸显了需具备有效抑制多类退化并保留细结构能力的专用算法。本文提出DEMIX,一种基于扩散模型启发的双编码器去噪框架,配备掩码门控融合机制,用于处理混合噪声及PSF诱导的失真。DEMIX自适应评估不同噪声分量,在隐空间解耦并抑制其影响,同时补偿PSF造成的退化。在两个超声数据集上的大量实验及下游分割任务表明,DEMIX持续优于当前最优基线,实现更优的降噪效果并保留结构细节。代码将公开。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Ultrasound imaging is widely used in noninvasive medical diagnostics due to its efficiency, portability, and avoidance of ionizing radiation. However, its utility is limited by the quality of the signal. Signal-dependent speckle noise, signal-independent sensor noise, and non-uniform spatial blurring caused by the transducer and modeled by the point spread function (PSF) degrade the image quality. These degradations challenge conventional image restoration methods, which assume simplified noise models, and highlight the need for specialized algorithms capable of effectively reducing the degradations while preserving fine structural details. We propose DEMIX, a novel dual-encoder denoising framework with a masked gated fusion mechanism, for denoising ultrasound images degraded by mixed noise and further degraded by PSF-induced distortions. DEMIX is inspired by diffusion models and is characterized by a forward process and a deterministic reverse process. DEMIX adaptively assesses the different noise components, disentangles them in the latent space, and suppresses these components while compensating for PSF degradations. Extensive experiments on two ultrasound datasets, along with a downstream segmentation task, demonstrate that DEMIX consistently outperforms state-of-the-art baselines, achieving superior noise suppression and preserving structural details. The code will be made publicly available.
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