提出多阶段扩散模型,用解剖结构和频域信息协同指导低剂量CT去噪。
ProSAC-CT: Progressive Spectral-Anatomical Co-Guided Multi-Stage Diffusion Model for Low-Dose CT Denoising

- 分阶段融合解剖先验与频域分解,逐步恢复图像细节
- 在4个基准上提升结构相似性与感知质量,边界保持更优
- 适合临床低剂量CT图像处理,保留关键解剖信息
低剂量计算机断层扫描(LDCT)虽降低辐射暴露,但引入更强的量子噪声、条纹伪影和局部纹理退化,可能模糊解剖边界并削弱低对比度结构。扩散模型可通过逐步从退化的LDCT输入恢复正常剂量CT(NDCT)图像来实现去噪,但现有方法常因解剖引导不足、频率依赖恢复不确定以及统一逆扩散建模而表现受限。本文提出ProSAC-CT,一种用于图像域低剂量CT去噪的渐进式谱-解剖协同多阶段扩散模型。该模型集成解剖先验引导条件模块(APGC)、残差频域解耦阶段(RFDDS)和时间步解耦去噪解码器(TD3)。APGC提取来自LDCT的结构引导信息,RFDDS增强频域感知表征,TD3将不同阶段的特征分配至对应逆扩散过程,实现解剖稳定、边界精修与细粒度恢复。在四个LDCT退化基准上的实验表明,ProSAC-CT在图像保真度、结构相似性、感知质量和信息保留方面优于代表性方法,同时更好保持边界敏感的解剖细节。对Mayo-2020数据集的下游解剖区域分类任务进一步验证了其保留任务相关解剖信息的能力,支持其在低剂量CT去噪中的实际应用。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) reduces radiation exposure but introduces stronger quantum noise, streak artifacts, and local texture degradation, which can obscure anatomical boundaries and weaken low-contrast structures. Diffusion models are promising for LDCT denoising by progressively recovering normal-dose CT (NDCT) images from degraded LDCT inputs, but existing methods often suffer from insufficient anatomical guidance, uncertain frequency-dependent recovery, and uniform reverse-process modeling. We propose ProSAC-CT, a progressive spectral-anatomical co-guided multi-stage diffusion model for image-domain LDCT denoising. ProSAC-CT integrates an anatomical-prior-guided conditioning (APGC) module, a residual frequency-domain decoupling stage (RFDDS), and a time-step-decoupling denoising decoder (TD3). APGC extracts LDCT-derived structural guidance, RFDDS enhances frequency-aware representations, and TD3 assigns them to different reverse-diffusion stages for anatomical stabilization, boundary refinement, and fine-detail recovery. Experiments on four LDCT degradation benchmarks show that ProSAC-CT improves image fidelity, structural similarity, perceptual quality, and information preservation over representative methods while better preserving boundary-sensitive anatomical details. Downstream anatomical-region classification on Mayo-2020 further indicates that ProSAC-CT retains task-relevant anatomical information, supporting its practical use for low-dose CT denoising.
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