用CT指导的可变正则化,让全身PET配准更精准。
CT-Guided Spatially-varying Regularization for Voxel-Wise Deformable Whole-Body PET Registration

- 基于CT构造体素级正则化图,自适应调节刚性与软组织的变形强度。
- 在296例患者数据上,器官配准精度显著优于传统方法。
- 适合需要高精度肿瘤动态监测的临床研究者使用。
全身正电子发射断层扫描(PET)配准对多参数肿瘤表征和转移性疾病进展评估至关重要。在基于深度学习的可变形配准中,密集位移场(DDF)正则化器对于稳定优化、防止大三维体积中不现实的形变至关重要。全身影像配准的关键挑战在于解剖异质性:骨骼等刚性结构应接受更强正则化,而软组织则需更灵活的形变与较弱约束。本文提出一种简单有效的CT引导空间可变正则化策略,用于跨示踪剂全身影像可变形PET配准。核心思想是利用PET/CT采集中的配对CT图像构建体素级的DDF正则化图,取代传统的单一全局正则化权重,从而实现刚性与软组织间自适应的正则化强度。该方法在包含296名患者的临床跨示踪剂PET/CT数据集(18F-PSMA与18F-FDG)上进行了评估,结果表明,相比弱监督配准基线,本方法在整体配准性能与器官级对齐上均取得统计学显著提升。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Whole-body Positron Emission Tomography (PET) registration is essential for multi-parametric tumor characterization and assessment of metastatic disease progression. In deep learning-based deformable registration, the dense displacement field (DDF) regularizer is crucial for stabilizing optimization and preventing unrealistic deformations in large 3D volumes. A key challenge in whole-body deformable registration is anatomical heterogeneity, rigid structures (e.g., bones) should undergo stronger regularization, whereas soft tissues require more flexible deformation and weaker constraints. In this work, we propose a simple yet effective CT-guided spatially-varying regularization strategy for whole-body cross-tracer deformable PET registration. The key idea is to use the paired CT volume from the PET/CT acquisition to construct a voxel-wise regularization map for the DDF, replacing the conventional single global regularization weight. This yields anatomy-adaptive regularization strength across rigid and soft tissues. The proposed method is evaluated on a real clinical cross-tracer PET/CT dataset of 296 patients involving 18F-PSMA and 18F-FDG, showing that the proposed method achieves statistically significant improvements over weakly-supervised registration baseline in both whole-body registration performance and organ-wise alignment.
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