arXiv:2605.10571eess.IVcs.CV2026-05

新框架让心脏MRI配准跨协议通用,无需重新训练。

Set-Based Groupwise Registration for Variable-Length, Variable-Contrast Cardiac MRI

论文配图:Set-Based Groupwise Registration for Variable-Length, Variable-Contrast Cardiac MRI
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  • 将MRI序列视为无序集合,摆脱长度和顺序依赖。
  • 仅用一个数据集训练,零样本适配多种不同长度和对比度的序列。
  • 适用于定量和电影类心脏MRI,提升组织表征精度。

定量心脏磁共振成像(MRI)可实现无创心肌组织表征,但依赖于对变长、变对比度图像序列的鲁棒运动校正。组对齐注册通过同时对齐所有图像,相比成对注册更具鲁棒性。然而,现有基于深度学习的组对齐方法无法跨成像协议泛化:网络通常将输入编码为固定长度通道堆叠,与特定序列长度、输入顺序及对比动态紧密绑定。推理时任意协议变更即导致模型失效。本文提出 extit{ AnyTwoReg},一种基于集合的组对齐框架,将定量MRI序列作为无序集合处理。该设定从根本上解耦网络设计与序列长度和输入顺序。通过共享编码器与相关性引导特征聚合, extit{ AnyTwoReg} 构建了置换不变的标准化参考,并学习从图像到形变场的置换等变映射。此外,从现有基础模型提取对对比度不敏感的图像特征,以应对极端对比度变化。仅在单一公开$T_1$映射数据集(STONE,序列长度$L=11$)上训练, extit{ AnyTwoReg} 即可在两个未见的定量MRI数据集(MOLLI,ASL)上实现零样本跨协议泛化,序列长度范围为$L\in[11,60]$,对比动态各异。其显著提升下游定量映射质量。值得注意的是,尽管专为定量MRI设计,本框架亦可直接用于电影MRI序列的跨心动周期配准。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Quantitative cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) enables non-invasive myocardial tissue characterization but relies on robust motion correction within these variable-length, variable-contrast image sequences. Groupwise registration, which simultaneously aligns all images, has shown greater robustness than pairwise registration for motion correction. However, current deep-learning-based groupwise registration methods cannot generalize across MRI sequences: the architecture typically encodes input data as a fixed-length channel stack, which rigidly couples network design to protocol-specific sequence length, input ordering, and contrast dynamics. At inference time, any change in imaging protocols will render the network unusable. In this work, we introduce \emph{\AnyTwoReg}, a new set-based groupwise registration framework that takes a quantitative MRI sequence as an unordered set. This set formulation fundamentally decouples network design from sequence length and input ordering. By utilizing a shared encoder and correlation-guided feature aggregation, \emph{\AnyTwoReg} constructs a permutation-invariant canonical reference for registration, and learns a permutation-equivariant mapping from images to deformation fields. Additionally, we extract contrast-insensitive image features from an existing foundation model to handle extreme contrast variations. Trained exclusively on a single public $T_1$ mapping dataset (STONE, sequence length $L=11$), \AnyTwoReg generalizes to two unseen quantitative MRI datasets (MOLLI, ASL) with variable lengths ($L \in [11, 60]$) and different contrast dynamics. It achieves strong cross-protocol generalization in a zero-shot manner, and consistently improves downstream quantitative mapping quality. Notably, while designed for quantitative MRI sequences, our framework is directly applicable to Cine MRI sequences for inter-cardiac-phase registration.

医学影像图像配准零样本深度学习

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