用生成模型从常规心脏MRI推算高精度应变,提升心功能评估准确率。
Generative Brownian Bridge Diffusion In Motion Space For Enhanced Myocardial Strain Analysis

- 基于运动空间的布朗桥扩散模型,学习标准MRI与高精度应变间的概率映射。
- 在多中心数据集上,相比现有方法显著提升标准MRI的运动预测与应变分析精度。
- 适合临床快速部署,为心功能评估提供低成本高准确的AI工具。
心脏磁共振(CMR)图像的心肌应变分析是评估心脏功能的重要手段。然而,现有技术要么依赖人工后处理且区域精度不足,要么需要特殊扫描序列,可用性有限。本文提出利用生成模型,从常规采集的CMR序列中合成高质量运动衍生应变值。具体而言,我们构建了一种新型布朗桥扩散模型,学习广泛采用的注册方法估算的标准CMR运动与先进应变成像提供的高精度运动之间的概率映射关系。为保证生成过程中的解剖结构保真度,模型以对应CMR图像作为条件输入。我们在包含标准电影CMR与先进应变成像配对数据的大规模多中心数据集上验证了该方法。实验结果表明,本框架在标准CMR上的运动预测和应变分析精度显著优于现有基于学习的方法。研究展示了开发低成本、可临床部署的AI工具的新范式,能在繁忙临床流程中实现更高精度的心肌应变评估。代码已公开于https://github.com/Rishov-MIA/Brownian-Bridge-strain-analysis。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Myocardial strain analysis of cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) images provides an important tool for evaluating cardiac function. However, current techniques require either human-adjusted post-processing with suboptimal regional accuracy, or specialized acquisitions with limited availability. In this paper, we propose to leverage the power of generative models to synthesize high-quality motion-derived strain values from routinely acquired CMR sequences. Specifically, we develop a novel Brownian bridge diffusion model in motion space to learn the probabilistic mapping between standard CMR motion estimated from widely adopted registration methods and highly accurate motion provided by advanced strain imaging techniques. To promote the fidelity of anatomical structure in the generation process, our model is conditioned on the corresponding CMR images. We validate our method on large-scale multi-center CMR datasets including subjects of paired standard cine CMR and advanced strain imaging acquisitions. Experimental results demonstrate that our framework significantly improves the accuracy of motion prediction and strain analysis from standard CMRs compared to existing learning-based approaches. Our research represents a new paradigm for potentially developing cost-effective, clinically deployable AI tools for cardiac function assessment with enhanced strain accuracy in busy clinical workflows. Our code is publicly available at https://github.com/Rishov-MIA/Brownian-Bridge-strain-analysis.
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