arXiv:2608.10429cs.CVphysics.med-ph2026-08

用两种影像代理通道提升癌症肿瘤在合成PET图像中的准确性。

Lesion-Aware Adaptive Fourier Neural Operator for CT-to-PSMA PET Synthesis in Prostate Cancer

论文配图:Lesion-Aware Adaptive Fourier Neural Operator for CT-to-PSMA PET Synthesis in Prostate Cancer
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  • 引入对比度和纹理杂乱度代理通道,替代耗时的肿瘤特征提取。
  • 合成图像整体质量高,但肿瘤总活性误差降低超40%。
  • 特别适合关注肿瘤生物特性的医学影像生成研究者。

从CT生成PSMA-PET可降低患者辐射剂量与设备需求,但传统模型采用全局损失函数(如L1或MSE),对所有体素同等处理。在全身PSMA-PET中,肿瘤体素占比极小却承载关键临床信号,导致模型虽具备高结构相似性(SSIM)和峰值信噪比(PSNR),仍可能低估病变活性或丢失肿瘤特异性结构。现有放射组学方法虽能描述肿瘤强度与纹理特征,但需手动勾画病灶区域,过程繁琐。本文提出LAFNO:一种基于病变感知的自适应傅里叶神经算子,将高维放射组学条件替换为两种高效的CT衍生代理通道——局部密度变化的对比度代理与局部纹理异质性的杂乱度代理,均注入模型瓶颈。该方法结合全体积重建与病灶级总病灶活性(TLA)、肿瘤核心对比度及周围组织监督。在TCIA PSMA-PET-CT-Lesions数据集上评估,LAFNO在整体图像质量上保持竞争力(18F-PSMA SSIM=0.960,68Ga-PSMA SSIM=0.938),同时将每例患者的总病灶活性误差分别降低至48.3%和64.0%,且在两类示踪剂下均达到最高肿瘤核心放射组学复现性。而周边组织复现性仍依赖示踪剂,表明合成图像生物学保真度仍有挑战。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Deep learning models that synthesize PET from CT or MRI can reduce patient dose and scanner demand, but are typically optimized with global losses such as L1 or mean squared error (MSE) that treat all voxels similarly. In whole-body PSMA-PET, tumor voxels occupy only a small fraction of the volume, yet carry the clinically relevant activity signal; as a result, models can achieve high structural similarity index measure (SSIM) and peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) while still underestimating lesion activity or failing to preserve tumor-specific structure. Radiomics provides biologically meaningful descriptors of tumor intensity and texture, but direct radiomics conditioning is time-consuming because it requires feature extraction from delineated lesion regions. We propose LAFNO, a Lesion-Aware Adaptive Fourier Neural Operator for CT-to-PSMA-PET synthesis that replaces high-dimensional radiomics conditioning with two efficient CT-derived proxy channels. Motivated by radiomics analysis of PSMA-avid tumor core and peritumoral regions, LAFNO uses a contrast proxy for local density variation and a disorder proxy for local texture heterogeneity, both injected into the model bottleneck. LAFNO combines whole-volume reconstruction with lesion-level total lesion activity (TLA), tumor-core contrast, and peritumoral supervision. We evaluated LAFNO against four baseline architectures on the TCIA PSMA-PET-CT-Lesions dataset. LAFNO remained competitive on whole-volume image quality, achieving SSIM of 0.960 and 0.938 for 18F- and 68Ga-PSMA, respectively, while reducing per-patient TLA error to 48.3% and 64.0% for 18F- and 68Ga-PSMA, respectively, and achieving the highest tumor-core radiomics reproducibility across all feature classes for both tracers. Peritumoral reproducibility remained tracer-dependent, indicating that biological fidelity in synthetic PSMA-PET remains challenging.

医学影像生成模型前列腺癌放射组学

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