无需预训练,单次成像即可实时去噪,提升超声图像清晰度。
Pyramid Self-Contrastive Learning for Single-shot Test-time Ultrasound Image Denoising

- 构建金字塔结构分离解剖特征与噪声,仅用一次成像数据自监督学习。
- 仿真中信噪比提升69.3%,对比度噪声比提升34.4%;活体实验增益达84.8%和25.7%。
- 适用于心脏、肝脏、肾脏等多种器官,无领域偏移且无需标注数据。
超声图像固有的电子噪声和散斑噪声会干扰临床判读。传统去噪方法依赖明确的噪声假设,在复合噪声下性能下降;基于学习的方法通常在有限图像域上预训练,导致复杂体内环境中存在不可避免的领域偏移。本文提出一种无需预训练的测试时超声图像去噪框架——金字塔自对比学习(PSCL)。给定仅一次成像获取的多组噪声样本,PSCL将解剖相似性与噪声随机性分别映射到金字塔式潜在空间中,从解剖空间重建干净图像并舍弃噪声空间。针对合成孔径超声(SAU),设计了孔径到孔径循环作为自监督代理任务以保证去噪保真度。仿真实验涵盖0~30 dB噪声水平及从简单到复杂的几何结构,信噪比(SNR)提升69.3%,对比度噪声比(CNR)提升34.4%。活体实验使用六种心动图视图下的心脏、肝脏和肾脏各两组孔径数据,分别实现84.8% SNR与25.7% CNR增益。该方法可在多种成像目标与配置下生成清晰图像,避免领域偏移与预训练成本,推动更可靠的解剖可视化。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
The inherent electronic and speckle noise complicates clinical interpretation of ultrasound images. Conventional denoising methods rely on explicit noise assumptions whose validity diminishes under composite noise conditions. Learning-based methods are usually pretrained in a limited image domain using a labeled dataset, which implies inevitable domain shift in complex in vivo environments. This study proposes a Pyramid Self-Contrastive Learning (PSCL) framework for test-time ultrasound image denoising without pretraining. Given multiple noisy samples from only one-shot imaging, PSCL disentangles anatomical similarity and noise randomness into separate pyramid latent spaces. The clean image is then decoded from the anatomy space while discarding the noise space. We first apply PSCL to synthetic aperture ultrasound (SAU), where an Aperture-to-Aperture loop serves as a self-supervised proxy task to ensure denoising fidelity. Simulation experiments, including noise levels from 0 to 30 dB and inclusion geometries from simple to complex, demonstrated improvements of 69.3% in SNR and 34.4% in CNR. The in vivo results showed 84.8% SNR and 25.7% CNR gains using only two aperture data of the heart in six echocardiographic views, liver, and kidney. PSCL delivers clear images across diverse imaging targets and configurations, paving the way for more reliable anatomical visualization without domain shift and pretraining costs.
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