提出结构保持的流模型,让血管图像生成更真实可靠。
Do Not Break the Vessels: Structure-Preserving Mean Flow for Vascular Image Translation

- 设计拓扑不变的流传输机制,分离外观与结构变化。
- 在扩散过程中每步都保持血管结构连续,提升解剖一致性。
- 适合医学影像重建,尤其对血管结构精度要求高的场景。
从临床可获取的成像模态中重建解剖上准确的血管结构具有重要临床意义。然而,现有跨模态图像转换方法主要关注像素级保真度或视觉真实性,将结构保持视为输出结果的属性而非生成过程的不变量,常导致结构断裂和伪影,影响解剖一致性与临床可靠性。本文提出结构保持均值流(SPMF)框架,将血管图像转换建模为拓扑不变的传输过程。基于结构不变性原理,推导出流速场的正交性约束,形式上分离外观传输与拓扑畸变。通过在布朗桥扩散模型中引入时间加权代理目标函数,在每个扩散步骤中实现拓扑保持。此外,提出原型引导结构精修(PGSR)模块,使推理时退化的结构与训练时可靠的结构对齐。在配对的NIRII-to-2PF和视网膜数据集上的实验表明,相比当前最优方法,本方法持续提升性能,分别达到24.96 dB和24.83 dB的峰值PSNR。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Reconstructing anatomically faithful vascular structures from clinically accessible imaging modalities is of substantial clinical significance. However, existing cross-modal translation methods mainly emphasize pixel-level fidelity or visual realism and treat structure preservation as a property of the final output rather than an invariant of the generative process. This limitation often leads to structural discontinuities and artifacts, compromising anatomical coherence and clinical reliability. In this work, we propose a Structure-Preserving Mean Flow (SPMF) framework that formulates vascular image translation as a topology-invariant transport process. Based on a structural invariance principle, we derive an orthogonality constraint on the flow velocity field that formally separates appearance transport from topological distortion. We implement this constraint as a time-weighted surrogate objective within a Brownian bridge diffusion model to preserve topology at every diffusion step. Moreover, we propose a Prototype-Guided Structural Refinement (PGSR) module to align degraded inference-time structures with reliable training-time structures. Experiments on paired NIRII-to-2PF and fundus datasets demonstrate consistent improvements over state-of-the-art methods, achieving peak PSNR values of 24.96 dB and 24.83 dB, respectively.
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