arXiv:2604.15059cs.CV2026-04

用注意力机制让MRI质量评估摆脱扫描仪差异影响。

Attention-Gated Convolutional Networks for Scanner-Agnostic Quality Assessment

论文配图:Attention-Gated Convolutional Networks for Scanner-Agnostic Quality Assessment
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  • 融合卷积与多头交叉注意力,识别运动伪影特征。
  • 在已见站点准确率达99.2%,跨站点仍保持75.5%准确率。
  • 适合大规模多中心MRI研究的质量控制场景。

运动伪影是结构化MRI(sMRI)中的主要挑战,常损害临床诊断和大规模自动化分析。尽管人工质量控制仍是金标准,但在长期大规模研究中已难以扩展。为此,我们提出一种混合CNN-注意力框架,用于鲁棒、设备无关的MRI质量评估。该架构结合分层2D CNN编码器提取局部空间特征,以及多头交叉注意力机制建模全局依赖关系,使模型能优先关注运动相关的伪影信号(如振铃、模糊),同时动态过滤站点特异性强度变化和背景噪声。模型在MR-ART数据集上使用200名受试者的均衡样本端到端训练。评估分为两层:在留出的MR-ART子集上进行已见站点评估,在包含17个异构站点的ABIDE数据集上进行未见站点评估。在已见站点上,扫描级准确率为0.9920,F1分数为0.9919;关键的是,在未见站点上无需重训练或微调即保持0.755的准确率,展现出对领域偏移的高度鲁棒性。结果表明,基于注意力的特征重加权可有效捕捉普适的伪影表征,弥合不同成像环境与扫描仪间的性能差距。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Motion artifacts present a significant challenge in structural MRI (sMRI), often compromising clinical diagnostics and large-scale automated analysis. While manual quality control (QC) remains the gold standard, it is increasingly unscalable for massive longitudinal studies. To address this, we propose a hybrid CNN-Attention framework designed for robust, site-invariant MRI quality assessment. Our architecture integrates a hierarchical 2D CNN encoder for local spatial feature extraction with a multi-head cross-attention mechanism to model global dependencies. This synergy enables the model to prioritize motion relevant artifact signatures, such as ringing and blurring, while dynamically filtering out site-specific intensity variations and background noise. The framework was trained end-to-end on the MR-ART dataset using a balanced cohort of 200 subjects. Performance was evaluated across two tiers: Seen Site Evaluation on a held-out MR-ART partition and Unseen Site Evaluation using 200 subjects from 17 heterogeneous sites in the ABIDE archive. On seen sites, the model achieved a scan-level accuracy of 0.9920 and an F1-score of 0.9919. Crucially, it maintained strong generalization across unseen ABIDE sites (Acc = 0.755) without any retraining or fine-tuning, demonstrating high resilience to domain shift. These results indicate that attention-based feature re-weighting successfully captures universal artifact descriptors, bridging the performance gap between diverse imaging environments and scanner manufacturers.

MRI质量评估注意力机制跨站点泛化

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