多模态信息融合的CT金属伪影校正网络

    Multimodal information fusionnetwork for CT metal artifact reduction

    • 摘要: 计算机断层扫描(Computed Tomography,CT)技术是医学辅助诊断的重要工具,然而当扫描部位存在金属时,重建的CT图像包含金属伪影,严重影响临床诊断和治疗。近些年,基于深度学习的金属伪影校正方法旨在有效去除金属伪影,但现有方法忽略了不同模态信息之间的互补特性,伪影校正效果有待提升。针对该问题,本文构建了一种多模态信息融合网络,并将该架构用于模型驱动的金属伪影校正框架。首先利用金属伪影的可加性对金属伪影和CT图像分别施加正则化约束,构建并求解了金属伪影校正的优化模型。其次,将所提出的算法的每个迭代子步骤展开成网络,构建了模型驱动网络,该网络的模型架构具有较好的可解释性。最后,构建融合图像局部、全局信息与文本先验信息的深度神经网络,并作为模型驱动金属伪影校正网络的CT图像邻近网络。利用对比语言图像预训练模型来整合文本的先验知识以辅助金属伪影校正。实验表明,本文提出的融合多种模态信息方法在金属伪影校正任务中优于现有基于深度学习的方法。

       

      Abstract: Computed Tomography (CT) is a pivotal diagnostic tool in medical imaging. The presence of metallic objects within the scan field, however, leads to the formation of metal artifacts in reconstructed CT images, which can significantly impair the accuracy of diagnosis and treatment. In recent years, deep learning-based approaches to Metal Artifact Reduction (MAR) have been developed to mitigate these artifacts. Yet, current methods often fail to capitalize on the complementary information available from different modalities, resulting in the suboptimal reduction of artifacts. To overcome this limitation, a Multi-modal Information Fusion Network (MIFNet) is constructed and applied to a model-driven MAR framework in this study. Regularization constraints are imposed on metal artifacts and CT images, leveraging the additive nature of metal artifacts, to formulate and solve an optimization model for MAR. Each iterative sub-step of the proposed algorithm is expanded into a network, creating a model-driven network with enhanced interpretability. Additionally, a deep neural network is developed that integrates local and global image information along with textual prior information, serving as the CT image proximal network within the model-driven MAR framework. The Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) model is utilized to incorporate textual prior knowledge, thereby aiding in MAR. Experimental results indicate that the multi-modal information fusion method presented here surpasses existing deep learning-based MAR methods in terms of MAR performance.

       

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