arXiv:2606.09953eess.IVcs.AI2026-06

用深度学习生成头部CT中间层,降低各向异性并自动降噪。

Deep Slice Interpolation for Reducing Through-Plane Anisotropy and Noise in Head CT

论文配图:Deep Slice Interpolation for Reducing Through-Plane Anisotropy and Noise in Head CT
图 1 · 摘自论文原文
  • 基于相邻轴向切片生成中间切片,将层间距减半。
  • 在测试集上超越传统插值方法,且输出自带去噪效果。
  • 适用于临床三维重建与病灶测量,尤其适合高精度需求场景。

头部计算机断层扫描(CT)通常具有亚毫米级平面内分辨率,但层面间距为2-5毫米,导致显著各向异性,影响多平面重建、体积测量(如血肿体积估算)以及依赖近似各向同性体素的下游算法。本文提出一种深度学习系统,从相邻轴向切片对中合成中间切片,将有效层面间距减半。该系统在提升三维可视化的同时,产生固有去噪输出,一次推理实现双重优势。我们系统评估了像素级损失(均方误差、平均绝对误差)、结构相似性损失(SSIM及其多尺度版本MS-SSIM)及混合组合。在独立测试集上,所有收敛模型均优于经典插值基线和预训练视频帧插值方法(RIFE、FILM),其中MS-SSIM+L1表现最优。我们还记录了SSIM类损失的训练不稳定性,并识别部分解决方案:标准数值修复可消除主要失效模式,但在小批量下仍存在残余发散。所有结果均以患者级别自举置信区间和配对统计检验报告。作为示例,我们将系统应用于来自医院圣母罗西奥大学医院的外分布头颅CT序列:模型成功生成中间切片,并在真实数据上展现出理论分析预测的隐式去噪特征,单个外部案例即验证了插值质量与隐式去噪不局限于训练分布。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Head computed tomography (CT) typically uses sub-millimeter in-plane resolution but 2-5 mm through-plane spacing, creating substantial anisotropy that degrades multiplanar reconstructions, volumetric measurements such as hematoma volume estimation, and downstream algorithms that assume near-isotropic voxels. We present a deep learning system that synthesizes intermediate CT slices from pairs of neighboring axial slices, halving the effective through-plane spacing. The system improves three-dimensional visualization while simultaneously producing inherently denoised outputs, yielding two complementary benefits from a single inference pass. To build a reliable system, we systematically evaluate pixel-wise losses, namely mean squared error (MSE) and mean absolute error (L1); structural-similarity losses, namely the structural similarity index (SSIM) and its multi-scale variant (MS-SSIM); and hybrid combinations. On a held-out test set, all converged models outperform classical interpolation baselines and pretrained video frame interpolation methods (RIFE, FILM) on all structural measures, with MS-SSIM+L1 offering the strongest balanced profile. We also document training instability in SSIM-family losses and identify partial remedies: the standard numerical fixes eliminate the dominant failure mode but leave residual divergence at smaller batch sizes. All results are reported with patient-level bootstrap confidence intervals and paired statistical tests. As an illustration, we apply the system to an out-of-distribution head CT series from Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío: the model synthesizes intermediate slices and exhibits on the real slices the implicit-denoising signature predicted by our theoretical analysis, supporting in a single external case that interpolation quality and implicit denoising are not confined to the training distribution.

医学影像图像插值深度学习去噪

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