用新方法统一不同标记物的脑部tau PET图像,提升疾病分析准确性。
Feynman Kac Reweighted Schrödinger Bridge Matching for Surface-Based Tau PET Harmonization

- 基于表面网格的随机传输框架,避免传统模型对高斯先验的依赖。
- 在1480例AV-1451与2458例PI-2620数据上实现更优病理一致性与分类性能。
- 适合需要跨探针整合tau PET数据的研究者,尤其关注阿尔茨海默病进展分析。
tau正电子发射断层扫描(PET)广泛用于阿尔茨海默病(AD)的体内病理阶段与进展评估。由于多类tau PET示踪剂(如AV-1451、PI-2620、MK-6240)在大型研究中使用,其结合需求迫切。现有方法如CenTauR仅标准化标量度量,难以应对病理异质性。本文提出基于表面的费曼-卡克斯重加权薛定谔桥匹配(FKRSBM),通过薛定谔桥直接学习不同示踪剂间的随机传输,避免扩散模型中的高斯先验路径。为保证生物学一致性,引入终点惩罚机制,通过费曼-卡克斯重加权实现匹配病理状态的桥接对齐;同时采用球面卷积网络,在皮层表面网格上进行顶点级谐调。实验在来自两个大规模数据集的1480例AV-1451和2458例PI-2620数据上验证,相较ComBat、CycleGAN、扩散模型(DF)及未正则化薛定谔桥模型(DSBM),FKRSBM在子组对齐、病理阳性一致性与诊断分类上均表现更优,且保持个体特异性皮层拓扑结构。代码已开源。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Tau positron emission tomography (PET) is widely used for the in vivo characterization of disease stage and progression in Alzheimer's disease (AD). With the adoption of multiple tau PET tracers including AV-1451, PI-2620, MK-6240 with different binding behaviors in various large-scale studies, there is a great need of effective harmonization methods to enable the cross-tracer integration of tau PET datasets. While previous methods such as CenTauR were proposed to standardize scalar tau PET measures, they are limited in accounting for the heterogeneity of tau pathology. In this work, we propose Feynman-Kac Reweighted Schrödinger Bridge Matching (FKRSBM), a surface-based framework for cross-tracer tau PET harmonization. FKRSBM learns a direct stochastic transport between tracer domains using Schrödinger Bridge matching, avoiding the Gaussian-prior routing used in diffusion-based translation. To promote biologically consistent transport, FKRSBM introduces an endpoint penalty favoring bridge pairings with matched tau-pathology status and implements it through a Feynman-Kac reweighted endpoint proposal. To preserve cortical organization, FKRSBM uses a spherical convolutional network for vertex-level harmonization on cortical surface meshes. In our experiments, we demonstrate our method by harmonizing Tau PET images acquired with the AV-1451 (n=1480) and PI-2620 (n=2458) tracers from two large-scale datasets. Compared to previous methods including ComBat, CycleGAN, Diffusion Model(DF), and unregularized Schrödinger Bridge Model(DSBM), the proposed FKRSBM method outperforms these baselines in subgroup-level alignment, tau-positivity consistency, and diagnostic classification while preserving subject-specific cortical topography of tau pathology. The code is available at: https://github.com/jianweizhang17/FKRSBM.
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