arXiv:2603.02012cs.CVcs.AI2026-03

用多阶段剂量扫描引导扩散模型,实现低剂量PET逐级去噪。

MAP-Diff: Multi-Anchor Guided Diffusion for Progressive 3D Whole-Body Low-Dose PET Denoising

  • 引入临床实测中等剂量图像作为去噪路径锚点,约束扩散逆过程。
  • 在内部数据集上提升PSNR至43.71 dB(+1.23 dB),NMAE降至0.103。
  • 支持仅需超低剂量输入,适合真实临床中渐进式重建需求。

低剂量正电子发射断层扫描(PET)虽可降低辐射暴露,但伴随严重噪声与定量退化。基于扩散的去噪模型虽能实现高质量重建,但其反向生成过程通常无约束,难以匹配PET剂量形成的渐进特性。本文提出MAP-Diff,一种用于3D全身低剂量PET渐进去噪的多锚点引导扩散框架。MAP-Diff将临床观测到的中间剂量扫描作为轨迹锚点,通过时间步依赖的监督机制,使反向过程对齐剂量一致的中间状态。锚点时间步通过模拟扩散退化与真实多剂量PET配对间的退化匹配进行校准,并采用时间加权锚点损失稳定分阶段学习。推理时仅需超低剂量输入,即可实现渐进、剂量一致的中间重建。在内部(Siemens Biograph Vision Quadra)与跨扫描仪(United Imaging uEXPLORER)数据集上的实验表明,性能优于多种强基线方法。内部数据集上,相比3D DDPM,PSNR从42.48 dB提升至43.71 dB(+1.23 dB),SSIM增至0.986,NMAE从0.115降至0.103(-0.012)。跨扫描仪外数据集上,达到34.42 dB PSNR与0.141 NMAE,显著优于所有对比方法。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Low-dose Positron Emission Tomography (PET) reduces radiation exposure but suffers from severe noise and quantitative degradation. Diffusion-based denoising models achieve strong final reconstructions, yet their reverse trajectories are typically unconstrained and not aligned with the progressive nature of PET dose formation. We propose MAP-Diff, a multi-anchor guided diffusion framework for progressive 3D whole-body PET denoising. MAP-Diff introduces clinically observed intermediate-dose scans as trajectory anchors and enforces timestep-dependent supervision to regularize the reverse process toward dose-aligned intermediate states. Anchor timesteps are calibrated via degradation matching between simulated diffusion corruption and real multi-dose PET pairs, and a timestep-weighted anchor loss stabilizes stage-wise learning. At inference, the model requires only ultra-low-dose input while enabling progressive, dose-consistent intermediate restoration. Experiments on internal (Siemens Biograph Vision Quadra) and cross-scanner (United Imaging uEXPLORER) datasets show consistent improvements over strong CNN-, Transformer-, GAN-, and diffusion-based baselines. On the internal dataset, MAP-Diff improves PSNR from 42.48 dB to 43.71 dB (+1.23 dB), increases SSIM to 0.986, and reduces NMAE from 0.115 to 0.103 (-0.012) compared to 3D DDPM. Performance gains generalize across scanners, achieving 34.42 dB PSNR and 0.141 NMAE on the external cohort, outperforming all competing methods.

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