构建首个统一评估CT图像退化的基准,支持多种伪影联合检测与严重度估计。
CT-DegradBench: A Physics-Informed Benchmark for CT Degradation Detection and Severity Estimation

- 基于物理建模生成单/混合伪影,统一评估不同退化类型。
- 新方法SeSpeCT融合语义与频域特征,无需微调即可准确预测伪影类型和严重度。
- 适合医学影像质量评估、AI辅助诊断系统开发者使用。
CT图像常受噪声、模糊、条纹、混叠及金属伪影等采集伪影影响。现有增强方法多依赖缺乏临床意义的图像质量指标,且数据集仅聚焦单一修复任务,难以实现跨退化类型的统一评估。本文提出CT-DegradBench,一个在受控单伪影与混合伪影设置下,用于CT退化检测与严重度估计的数据集与基准。该基准支持在统一实验框架中系统评估多种退化类别与严重程度。我们进一步提出SeSpeCT(语义-频谱CT退化估计)框架,结合医学视觉-语言模型的语义先验与互补的频域线索进行伪影分析。SeSpeCT通过放射科提示词构建无训练的语义质量轴,嵌入多模态空间,并融合捕捉退化特异性频谱模式的特征,实现伪影类型与严重度的联合预测。实验表明,SeSpeCT在单伪影与混合伪影设置下均显著优于对比基线。代码已开源:https://github.com/yousranb/CT-DEGRADBENCH。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Computed tomography (CT) images are frequently degraded by acquisition artifacts, including noise, blur, streaking, aliasing, and metal artifacts. Yet CT enhancement is still largely evaluated using image quality metrics with limited perceptual and clinical validity, while existing datasets remain focused on isolated restoration tasks, hindering unified benchmarking across diverse degradation types. We present CT-DegradBench, a dataset and benchmark for CT degradation detection and severity estimation under controlled single- and mixed-artifact settings. CT-DegradBench enables systematic evaluation across multiple degradation families and severity levels within a common experimental framework. We further propose SeSpeCT (Semantic-Spectral CT degradation estimation), a framework that combines semantic priors from medical vision-language models with complementary frequency-domain cues for artifact analysis. SeSpeCT constructs a training-free semantic quality axis in the multimodal embedding space using radiology-informed text prompts, without task-specific fine-tuning, and combines it with spectral features that capture degradation-specific frequency patterns. The resulting representation enables joint prediction of artifact type and severity. Experimental results show that SeSpeCT consistently outperforms the evaluated baselines under both single- and mixed-degradation settings. The framework is available at https://github.com/yousranb/CT-DEGRADBENCH.
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