用高分辨率T1图像引导,让MRI超分辨率更真实不幻觉
Cross-Modality Structural Guidance in 3D Latent Diffusion for Robust FLAIR Super-Resolution

- 跨模态结构注意力机制,用T1图指导FLAIR图重建
- 在7mm厚片下仍保持0.63的分割精度,远超基线
- 适合需要精准脑结构重建的临床MRI研究
高分辨率磁共振成像常因扫描时间受限,导致各向异性或低分辨率扫描(如厚层FLAIR),影响诊断准确性。现有深度学习超分辨率方法易产生解剖结构幻觉,破坏脑部结构完整性。为此,本文提出MR-DiffuSR,一种基于多尺度扩散模型的超分辨率框架,利用高分辨率T1w图像作为先验,在3D潜在空间中引导厚层FLAIR图像恢复。该方法引入跨模态结构Swin注意力机制,从HR T1w提取结构注意力图并作用于低分辨率FLAIR潜在特征,有效分离解剖结构与模态特异性对比度,避免幻觉。同时采用混合尺度退化策略,在多种下采样因子上训练以增强对不同切片厚度的鲁棒性,并结合基于DINOv3的感知损失,保留高频语义细节。在ADNI-4数据集上评估,MR-DiffuSR超越CNN与2D扩散方法,平均达到PSNR 32.46dB、SSIM 0.97、LPIPS 0.07。在白质高信号分割任务中表现优异:当基线在10倍下采样时Dice降至0.51,而本模型仍保持0.63,即使等效切片厚度达7mm仍具实用价值。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
High-resolution (HR) MRI acquisition is often hampered by scan time constraints, resulting in anisotropic or low-resolution scans (e.g., thick-slice FLAIR) that limit diagnostic accuracy. While deep learning-based super-resolution (SR) methods show promise, they often hallucinate anatomical details, which can compromise brain structural integrity. To mitigate this limitation, we introduce MR-DiffuSR, a Multi-Resolution Diffusion-based Super-Resolution framework that incorporates HR T1w structural image priors to guide the restoration of thick-slice FLAIR scans and operates in the 3D latent space. Our architecture introduces cross-modality structural swin-attention, which derives structural attention maps from the HR T1w and applies them to the low-resolution FLAIR latent features. This design disentangles anatomical structure from modality-specific contrast, effectively preventing hallucinations. Furthermore, we employ a mixed-scale degradation strategy, training the model on a continuum of downsampling factors to ensure robustness to varying slice thicknesses, while optimizing with a DINOv3-based perceptual loss to preserve high-frequency semantic details. Evaluated on the ADNI-4 dataset, MR-DiffuSR surpasses both CNN and 2D diffusion approaches, achieving an average PSNR of 32.46dB, SSIM of 0.97, and LPIPS of 0.07 across all downsampling factors. In downstream white matter hyperintensity segmentation, our model demonstrates exceptional robustness. While baseline performance collapses at 10x down-sampling (Dice: 0.51), MR-DiffuSR maintains a Dice score of 0.63, preserving utility even at 7mm equivalent slice thickness.
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