arXiv:2608.03430cs.CVcs.LG2026-08

用单次自由呼吸扫描重建4D肺部CT,自动分离呼吸运动与静态结构。

Dual-domain U-Nets with embedded back projection operators for motion-resolved 4D CBCT reconstruction

论文配图:Dual-domain U-Nets with embedded back projection operators for motion-resolved 4D CBCT reconstruction
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  • 用双域U-Net结合反投影函数,在投影与体数据间传递特征。
  • 重建图像质量接近传统方法,肿瘤和食管可见性显著提升。
  • 无需呼吸信号或分帧,适合临床快速实现4D影像分析。

四维锥形束计算机断层扫描(4D CBCT)对胸腔肿瘤的图像引导放疗至关重要,但扫描时间长导致患者辐射剂量高,并产生运动与稀疏采样伪影。本文提出一种深度学习方法,仅用常规自由呼吸扫描即可实现运动分辨的4D CBCT重建,无需呼吸信号或显式投影分帧。所提卷积神经网络以自由呼吸3D CBCT投影为输入,输出最大吸气状态下的静态体积及覆盖整个呼吸周期的十个位移矢量场(DVFs)。网络扩展了U-Net结构:编码器处理滤波后的投影堆栈,解码器在体数据域工作,跳跃连接被多分辨率非训练反投影函数替代,实现域间特征传递。模型在模拟CBCT扫描上训练,评估包括11例未见模拟患者和13例临床自由呼吸扫描。另测试60秒与6秒扫描版本,由临床专家在三例和两例扫描上对比单相重建结果与参考3D SART-TV图像的肿瘤与食管可视性。专家更偏好本方法在肿瘤可视性(59%比36%无偏好,5%参考)和食管可视性(47%比42%,11%)上的表现。模拟数据上,图像质量与SART-TV相当(均方根误差:-1.19 HU,峰值信噪比:+0.09 dB,结构相似性:-0.009),同时支持4D重建。临床扫描中,本方法展现更锐利的动态结构(如膈肌)并减少运动条纹伪影。该非患者特定的卷积神经网络从单次自由呼吸扫描中预测静态体积与完整4D呼吸运动模型,无需呼吸代理或投影分帧,在降低运动伪影的同时引入运动建模能力。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Four-dimensional cone beam CT (4D CBCT) is important for image-guided radiation therapy of thoracic cancers, but its use is limited by long scan times, causing high patient dose and motion/sparse-sampling artifacts. We propose a deep learning method for motion-resolved 4D CBCT reconstruction from conventional free-breathing scans, without a respiratory signal or explicit projection binning. Our CNN takes free-breathing 3D CBCT projections as input and predicts a static volume at maximum inhalation plus ten displacement vector fields (DVFs) spanning a breathing cycle. The network extends U-Net: the encoder acts on filtered projection stacks, the decoder acts in the volume domain, and skip connections are replaced with non-trainable back-projection functions at multiple resolutions to transfer features between domains. The model is trained on simulated CBCT scans and evaluated on 11 unseen simulated patients and 13 clinical free-breathing scans. Two additional models (60 s and 6 s scans) were evaluated by clinical experts on three and two scans, comparing single phases of our 4D reconstruction to reference 3D SART-TV images for tumor and esophagus visibility. Experts preferred our method for tumor visibility (59% vs. 36% no preference, 5% reference) and esophagus visibility (47% vs. 42%, 11%). On simulated data, image quality matched SART-TV (mean RMSE: -1.19 HU, PSNR: +0.09 dB, SSIM: -0.009) while enabling 4D reconstruction. On clinical scans, our method showed sharper dynamic structures (e.g., diaphragm) and fewer motion streak artifacts than traditional reconstruction. This non-patient-specific CNN predicts static volumes and full 4D respiratory motion models from a single free-breathing scan, without a respiratory surrogate or projection binning, reducing motion artifacts while adding motion-modeling capability.

4D CT运动校正深度学习放疗影像

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