arXiv:2608.19828eess.IVeess.SP2026-08

用深度学习提升超声成像初至波提取精度,解决骨骼超声反演难题。

Simulation-to-Real First-Break Segmentation for Efficient Inversion in Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Tomography

论文配图:Simulation-to-Real First-Break Segmentation for Efficient Inversion in Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Tomography
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  • 将初至波视为连续轨迹,用轻量2D U-Net进行分割提取
  • 在信噪比低于3 dB时仍保持稳定反演,误差显著降低
  • 适合骨肌系统超声定量成像,尤其适用于弱信号场景

全波形反演(FWI)是定量骨骼肌肉超声计算机断层成像(USCT)的有前景方法,但骨骼引起的散射、衰减和信号退化使其对初始声学参数分布的准确性高度敏感,易发生周期跳跃。初至走时提供了初始模型构建的重要运动学信息,但传统逐道拾取法在初至信号微弱、空间异质或被系统噪声掩盖时不可靠。本文提出一种基于学习的重建流程,结合基于分割的初至波提取与混合全波形反演(HFWI),在早期反演阶段融合基于Rytov近似的走时信息与波形拟合。采用轻量级2D U-Net将接收通道间的初至轨迹视为分割目标,利用其空间连续性而非独立处理每一道。为应对标注数据有限及仿真到真实之间的差距,网络先在特定任务仿真数据上预训练,并加入真实系统噪声,随后通过逐步增加信号退化的分阶段训练,以及使用少量弱标签实验数据进行解码器仅微调。方法在体外模型、离体牛肢及活体人体大腿数据集上评估。相比传统STA/LTA拾取,所提网络获得更空间一致的初至轨迹,平均提取误差更低,可在数秒内处理全矩阵采集数据。集成至HFWI后,提取的初至波改善了初始模型构建,实现了稳定后续FWI重建,包括估计局部初至信噪比低于3 dB的挑战性案例。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Full-waveform inversion (FWI) is a promising strategy for quantitative musculoskeletal ultrasound computed tomography (USCT), but bone-related scattering, attenuation, and signal degradation make it highly sensitive to the accuracy of the initial acoustic-property distributions and prone to cycle skipping. First-arrival traveltimes provide important kinematic information for initial-model construction, yet conventional trace-wise picking is unreliable when arrivals are weak, spatially heterogeneous, or buried in system noise. We propose a learning-assisted reconstruction pipeline that combines segmentation-based first-arrival extraction with hybrid full-waveform inversion (HFWI), which incorporates Rytov-approximation-based traveltime information together with waveform fitting during the early inversion stage. A lightweight 2D U-Net treats the first-arrival trajectory across receiver channels as a first-break segmentation target and exploits its spatial continuity rather than processing each trace independently. To address both limited manual annotations and the simulation-to-real gap, the network is pretrained on task-specific simulations augmented with real system-noise recordings, followed by stage-wise training with progressively increased signal degradation and decoder-only fine-tuning using limited weakly labeled experimental data. The method is evaluated on in vitro phantom, ex vivo bovine-limb, and in vivo human-thigh datasets. Compared with conventional STA/LTA picking, the proposed network yields more spatially coherent first-arrival trajectories, lower mean extraction errors, and processes a full-matrix-capture dataset within seconds. When integrated into HFWI, the extracted arrivals improve initial-model construction and lead to stable subsequent FWI reconstructions, including challenging cases with estimated local first-arrival SNRs below 3 dB.

超声成像全波形反演初至波提取深度学习

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