首次实现脑部MRI相位与幅值联合生成,提升肿瘤诊断潜力。
Generative Modeling of Complex-Valued Brain MRI Data

- 用变分自编码器+流匹配模型,同时建模MRI的幅值和相位信息
- 生成样本与真实数据几乎无法区分,下游分类准确率达0.880
- 适合医学影像生成、病理特征研究及跨机构数据验证
标准磁共振成像(MRI)重建流程丢弃了采集时捕获的相位信息,尽管已有证据表明相位编码了与肿瘤诊断相关的组织特性。当前机器学习方法也因仅处理重建后的幅值图像而继承此局限。本研究旨在构建一个能联合建模复杂值MRI扫描中幅值与相位信息的生成框架。所提框架结合条件变分自编码器(压缩复杂值MRI为紧凑潜在表示并保持相位一致性)与基于流匹配的生成模型。通过真实-合成判别器评估生成样本质量,并在合成数据上训练下游分类器进行异常组织检测。结果表明,自编码器相位一致性高于0.997;真实-合成分类的AUROC值在0.50至0.66之间,表明生成样本几乎无法与真实数据区分。在下游正常-异常分类任务中,完全基于合成数据训练的分类器达到0.880的AUROC,超过真实数据基线的0.842(使用fastMRI公开数据集)。该优势在另一家机构的独立外部测试集(经活检确认)上依然成立。该框架证明了联合建模正常与异常复杂值脑部MRI幅值与相位信息的可行性,为未来诊断应用中充分利用完整脑部MRI信息奠定基础,并支持系统研究幅值与相位如何协同编码病理特异性特征。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Objective. Standard Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) reconstruction pipelines discard phase information captured during acquisition, despite evidence that it encodes tissue properties relevant to tumor diagnosis. Current machine learning approaches inherit this limitation by operating exclusively on reconstructed magnitude images. The aim of this study is to build a generative framework which is capable of jointly modeling magnitude and phase information of complex-valued MRI scans. Approach. The proposed generative framework combines a conditional variational autoencoder, which compresses complex-valued MRI scans into compact latent representations while preserving phase coherence, with a flow-matching-based generative model. Synthetic sample quality is assessed via a real-versus-synthetic classifier and by training downstream classifiers on synthetic data for abnormal tissue detection. Main results. The autoencoder preserves phase coherence above 0.997. Real-versus-synthetic classification yields low AUROC values between 0.50 and 0.66 across all acquisition sequences, indicating generated samples are nearly indistinguishable from real data. In downstream normal-versus-abnormal classification, classifiers trained entirely on synthetic data achieve an AUROC of 0.880, surpassing the real-data baseline of 0.842 on a publicly available dataset (fastMRI). This advantage persists on an independent external test set from a different institution with biopsy-confirmed labels. Significance. The proposed framework demonstrates the feasibility of jointly modeling magnitude and phase information for normal and abnormal complex-valued brain MRI data. Beyond synthetic data generation, it establishes a foundation for the usage of complete brain MRI information in future diagnostic applications and enables systematic investigation of how magnitude and phase jointly encode pathology-specific features.
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