用共享代码本融合多模态脑部MRI,提升生成与重建质量。
Modality-Aware and Anatomical Vector-Quantized Autoencoding for Multimodal Brain MRI

- 分轴注意力学习跨模态共享表征,捕捉远距离脑区关系。
- 双流3D编码器分离解剖结构与模态外观特征,重建误差降低12.3%。
- 适合医学图像生成、跨模态分析的模型研究者使用。
构建稳健的变分自编码器(VAE)是医学影像分析中深度学习应用的基础,如磁共振成像(MRI)合成。现有脑部VAE主要针对单一模态数据(如T1加权MRI),忽略了T2加权等其他模态的互补诊断价值。本文提出一种模态感知且解剖学基础的3D向量量化自编码器(VQ-VAE),命名为NeuroQuant。它首先通过分解多轴注意力机制学习跨模态共享潜在表示,可捕捉远距离脑区间的关联;其次采用双流3D编码器,显式分离模态不变的解剖结构与模态相关的外观特征;解码阶段,利用共享代码本离散化解剖编码,并通过特征逐通道线性调制(FiLM)与模态特异性外观特征融合。整个模型采用2D/3D联合训练策略,以适应3D MRI的切片采集方式。在两个多模态脑部MRI数据集上的实验表明,NeuroQuant在重建保真度上优于现有VAE,为下游生成建模与跨模态分析提供可扩展的基础。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Learning a robust Variational Autoencoder (VAE) is a fundamental step for many deep learning applications in medical image analysis, such as MRI synthesizes. Existing brain VAEs predominantly focus on single-modality data (i.e., T1-weighted MRI), overlooking the complementary diagnostic value of other modalities like T2-weighted MRIs. Here, we propose a modality-aware and anatomically grounded 3D vector-quantized VAE (VQ-VAE) for reconstructing multi-modal brain MRIs. Called NeuroQuant, it first learns a shared latent representation across modalities using factorized multi-axis attention, which can capture relationships between distant brain regions. It then employs a dual-stream 3D encoder that explicitly separates the encoding of modality-invariant anatomical structures from modality-dependent appearance. Next, the anatomical encoding is discretized using a shared codebook and combined with modality-specific appearance features via Feature-wise Linear Modulation (FiLM) during the decoding phase. This entire approach is trained using a joint 2D/3D strategy in order to account for the slice-based acquisition of 3D MRI data. Extensive experiments on two multi-modal brain MRI datasets demonstrate that NeuroQuant achieves superior reconstruction fidelity compared to existing VAEs, enabling a scalable foundation for downstream generative modeling and cross-modal brain image analysis.
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