用结构先验提升临床脑部MRI超分辨率,还能量化重建不确定性。
SIINR: Structurally Informed Implicit Neural Representations for super-resolution with uncertainty quantification of clinical quality diffusion MRI datasets

- 结合3D U-net先验与隐式神经表示,联合建模空间与方向域。
- 在多个数据集上优于传统插值法,降低误差并保留解剖细节。
- 适合神经影像分析、多发性硬化等临床场景的高可靠重建。
扩散磁共振成像(dMRI)是探究脑微结构的强大工具,但临床采集常受限于低层间分辨率,导致结构信息退化,影响高级分析。本文提出SIINR(结构感知隐式神经表示),一种通用的临床dMRI超分辨率框架,同时量化重建结果的不确定性。SIINR采用监督训练的3D U-net作为先验,结合自监督隐式神经表示(INR),融合高分辨率先验与原始低分辨率数据。INR实现空间与角度域联合建模,保证数据一致性,并提供解析近似后验分布以支持下游不确定性量化。在多个公开dMRI数据集上验证表明,SIINR在定量误差指标和定性解剖保真度上均优于标准插值方法。临床病例实验(包括多发性硬化与脑病变患者)显示其能有效传播强度变化,并在复杂场景中标注不确定区域。SIINR具有灵活性与模块性,可适配不同上采样倍率与下游任务,为临床dMRI增强提供了原理严谨的解决方案。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging (dMRI) is a powerful tool for probing brain microstructure, but clinical acquisitions are often limited by low out-of-plane resolution, resulting in degraded structural information and reduced utility for advanced analysis. We introduce SIINR (Structurally Informed Implicit Neural Representations), a general framework for super-resoltion of clinical dMRI datasets while quantifying uncertainty in the reconstructed outputs. SIINR utilizes a supervised 3D U-net as a prior and combines it with a self-supervised implicit neural representation (INR) that fuses the high-resolution prior and the original low-resolution data. The INR enables joint modeling across spatial and angular domains, enforces data consistency, and provides analytic approximate posterior distributions for downstream uncertainty quantification. We validate the framework on a diverse set of open-access dMRI datasets, demonstrating that SIINR outperforms standard interpolation methods in both quantitative error metrics and qualitative anatomical fidelity. Experiments on clinical cases, including subjects with multiple sclerosis and brain lesions, illustrate the framework its ability to propagate intensity changes and flag uncertain regions in challenging scenarios. SIINR is flexible, modular, and can be adapted to different upsampling ratios and downstream tasks, providing a principled approach for enhancing clinical dMRI and supporting robust interpretation of derived neuroimaging metrics.
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