arXiv:2608.29820cs.CV2026-09

无需真实图像,通过噪声感知机制有效去除超声图像斑点噪声。

Null-Space Diffusion Restoration with Adaptive Uncertainty-Guided Fusion for Ultrasound Speckle Reduction

论文配图:Null-Space Diffusion Restoration with Adaptive Uncertainty-Guided Fusion for Ultrasound Speckle Reduction
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  • 在反对数压缩域构建稳定信号包络,保留解剖结构。
  • 自适应范围-零空间重建,精准保留组织区域。
  • 不确定性引导融合,降低采样差异影响,适合临床应用。

超声B模式成像常受斑点噪声和伪影困扰,需在对比度、分辨率与解剖结构保持间取得平衡。尽管近期去斑方法有所进展,监督学习仍受限于体内无真实无噪参考图像的“真值悖论”。现有无监督扩散方法通常直接在非线性对数压缩域强制数据一致性,映射回包络域时可能过度放大背景伪影。为此,我们提出不确定性引导的零空间扩散(UGNS)框架,一种新型无标签解决方案,其在逆对数压缩获得的稳定正包络代理上执行一致性校正。UGNS引入三项技术创新:(a) 在稳定包络域提取结构先验,生成保留解剖结构的鲁棒信号包络;(b) 开发自适应范围-零空间重建机制,利用自适应权重掩码通过范围投影保留组织区域;(c) 引入自适应不确定性引导融合,缓解采样变异性。在PICMUS基准和体内数据集上进行了大量对比实验,结果表明UGNS在多种数据集上均实现有竞争力的广义信噪比(gCNR)。此外,验证了UGNS能有效抑制斑点噪声,同时保持精细空间分辨率。代码已公开于https://github.com/yousirong/UGNS.git。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Ultrasound B-mode imaging commonly suffers from speckle noise and artifacts, requiring a delicate balance between contrast, resolution, and preservation of anatomical structures. Although recently developed despeckling methods have achieved some progress, supervised learning approaches remain fundamentally limited by the ground truth paradox, which arises from the absence of noise-free, ground truth reference images in in vivo scenarios. Existing unsupervised diffusion-based methods typically enforce data consistency directly in the nonlinear log-compressed domain, which can disproportionately amplify background artifacts when mapped back to the envelope domain. To overcome these limitations, we propose an uncertainty-guided null-space diffusion (UGNS) framework, a novel label-free solution that enforces consistency correction on a stabilized positive-envelope proxy obtained via inverse log compression. The proposed UGNS introduces several technical novelties: (a) extraction of a structural prior in the stabilized envelope domain to produce a robust signal envelope that preserves anatomical structure, (b) development of an adaptive range-null reconstruction mechanism that uses an adaptive weight mask to preserve tissue regions via range-space projection, and (c) introduction of uncertainty-guided fusion in an adaptive way to mitigate sampling variability. Extensive and comparative experiments were conducted using the PICMUS benchmark and in vivo datasets. The results demonstrate that UGNS achieves competitive generalized contrast-to-noise ratio (gCNR) values across diverse datasets. In addition, it is successfully validated that UGNS effectively suppresses speckle noise while preserving fine spatial resolution. Code is available at https://github.com/yousirong/UGNS.git.

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