arXiv:2608.08693cs.CV2026-08中稿 · the 2nd workshop o…

提升加速MRI中T2*映射精度,同时提供像素级不确定性图。

CUPA-T2*: Covariance-Aware Uncertainty Propagation and Alignment for T2* Mapping in Accelerated MRI

论文配图:CUPA-T2*: Covariance-Aware Uncertainty Propagation and Alignment for T2* Mapping in Accelerated MRI
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  • 通过协方差感知采样,将重建不确定性传递至T2*拟合阶段。
  • 在高加速条件下显著改善白质T2*估计性能,整体表现优于基线。
  • 输出像素级不确定性图,适合临床医生评估定量结果可靠性。

定量T2*图谱在生物标志物发现中潜力巨大,但因扫描时间过长难以应用于临床。通过欠采样k空间并结合学习型重建可大幅加速,但重建伪影和噪声会传播至下游T2*拟合,降低精度。本文提出CUPA-T2*框架,利用蒙特卡洛丢弃法生成的体素级互回波不确定性,通过协方差感知采样传递至T2*拟合,并采用异方差MLP与基于相关性的正则化器,促使预测方差与重建不确定性对齐。在加速脑部MRI数据上的实验表明,该方法在高加速下保持良好总体性能,尤其提升了白质区域表现。相比异方差基线,其显著增强重建不确定性与预测方差的一致性,但存在校准度(ECE)与选择性预测性能(AURC)的权衡。CUPA-T2*实现了重建不确定性感知的T2*拟合,并输出体素级不确定性图,支持定量T2*结果的解释。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Quantitative T2* maps have strong potential for biomarker discovery but are limited by long scan times, rendering them impractical in clinical settings. Significant acceleration can be achieved through undersampling in k-space combined with learning-based reconstruction. However, reconstruction artifacts and noise can propagate into downstream T2* fitting, degrading its accuracy. We introduce CUPA-T2*, a framework that explicitly propagates voxel-wise inter-echo uncertainty from stochastic Monte Carlo dropout reconstructions to downstream T2* fitting via covariance-aware sampling. T2* fitting is performed with a heteroscedastic MLP and a correlation-based regularizer that encourages alignment between predicted variance and reconstruction uncertainty. Experiments on accelerated brain MRI data show tissue-dependent behavior: CUPA-T2* achieves competitive overall T2* fitting performance and improves white-matter performance at higher accelerations. Compared with a heteroscedastic baseline, the proposed framework substantially increases alignment between reconstruction uncertainty and predicted T2* variance, while also revealing a trade-off with calibration (ECE) and selective prediction performance (AURC). CUPA-T2* enables reconstruction uncertainty-aware T2* fitting and delivers voxel-wise uncertainty maps to support the interpretation of quantitative T2* estimates.

MRI加速不确定性建模定量成像

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