利用金属信息提升CT重建质量,显著减少金属伪影。
MGMAR: Metal-Guided Metal Artifact Reduction for X-ray Computed Tomography
- 用隐式神经表示学习金属无关投影的先验图像
- 在29个临床病例上平均得分0.89,达当前最优
- 适合需要高精度CT重建的医学影像研究者
X射线计算机断层扫描(CT)中的金属伪影消除(MAR)仍是重大挑战,因金属植入物违背标准前向建模假设,导致严重条纹和阴影伪影,降低诊断质量。本文提出MGMAR,一种全程利用金属相关信息的金属引导MAR方法。首先通过训练条件隐式神经表示(INR)使用无金属影响的投影生成高质量先验图像,再将其融入归一化MAR(NMAR)框架完成投影补全。为增强在严重金属干扰下的鲁棒性,预先在配对的金属污染与无伪影CT图像上训练编码器-条件INR,将数据驱动先验知识嵌入INR参数空间。该先验初始化降低对随机初始化的敏感性,并加速特定测量值的精调收敛。编码器输入含金属污染重建图与递归构建的金属伪影图,使潜在场捕捉依赖金属的全局伪影模式。投影补全后,进一步采用金属条件校正网络抑制残余伪影,通过自适应实例归一化让金属掩膜调控中间特征,精准抑制金属相关次生伪影同时保留解剖结构。在公开的AAPM-MAR基准测试中,MGMAR表现优异,29个临床测试案例平均最终得分为0.89。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
An X-ray computed tomography (CT), metal artifact reduction (MAR) remains a major challenge because metallic implants violate standard CT forward-model assumptions, producing severe streaking and shadowing artifacts that degrade diagnostic quality. We propose MGMAR, a metal-guided MAR method that explicitly leverages metal-related information throughout the reconstruction pipeline. MGMAR first generates a high-quality prior image by training a conditioned implicit neural representation (INR) using metal-unaffected projections, and then incorporates this prior into a normalized MAR (NMAR) framework for projection completion. To improve robustness under severe metal corruption, we pretrain the encoder-conditioned INR on paired metal-corrupted and artifact-free CT images, thereby embedding data-driven prior knowledge into the INR parameter space. This prior-embedded initialization reduces sensitivity to random initialization and accelerates convergence during measurement-specific refinement. The encoder takes a metal-corrupted reconstruction together with a recursively constructed metal artifact image, enabling the latent field to capture metal-dependent global artifact patterns. After projection completion using the INR prior, we further suppress residual artifacts using a metal-conditioned correction network, where the metal mask modulates intermediate features via adaptive instance normalization to target metal-dependent secondary artifacts while preserving anatomical structures. Experiments on the public AAPM-MAR benchmark demonstrate that MGMAR achieves state-of-the-art performance, attaining an average final score of 0.89 on 29 clinical test cases.
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