Institute of Medical Robotics, School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, No. 800, Dongchuan Road, Shanghai, 200240, China.
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, HFR Cantonal Hospital, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland.
Comput Med Imaging Graph. 2024 Oct;117:102431. doi: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2024.102431. Epub 2024 Sep 4.
CycleGAN has been leveraged to synthesize a CT image from an available MR image after trained on unpaired data. Due to the lack of direct constraints between the synthetic and the input images, CycleGAN cannot guarantee structural consistency and often generates inaccurate mappings that shift the anatomy, which is highly undesirable for downstream clinical applications such as MRI-guided radiotherapy treatment planning and PET/MRI attenuation correction. In this paper, we propose a cycle-consistent and semantics-preserving generative adversarial network, referred as CycleSGAN, for unpaired MR-to-CT image synthesis. Our design features a novel and generic way to incorporate semantic information into CycleGAN. This is done by designing a pair of three-player games within the CycleGAN framework where each three-player game consists of one generator and two discriminators to formulate two distinct types of adversarial learning: appearance adversarial learning and structure adversarial learning. These two types of adversarial learning are alternately trained to ensure both realistic image synthesis and semantic structure preservation. Results on unpaired hip MR-to-CT image synthesis show that our method produces better synthetic CT images in both accuracy and visual quality as compared to other state-of-the-art (SOTA) unpaired MR-to-CT image synthesis methods.
CycleGAN 已被用于在未配对数据上进行训练后,从可用的磁共振图像中合成 CT 图像。由于合成图像和输入图像之间缺乏直接约束,CycleGAN 不能保证结构一致性,并且经常生成不准确的映射,从而改变解剖结构,这对于下游临床应用(如 MRI 引导的放射治疗计划和 PET/MRI 衰减校正)是非常不可取的。在本文中,我们提出了一种循环一致且保留语义的生成对抗网络,称为 CycleSGAN,用于未配对的 MR 到 CT 图像合成。我们的设计具有将语义信息纳入 CycleGAN 的新颖而通用的方法。这是通过在 CycleGAN 框架内设计一对三玩家游戏来实现的,其中每个三玩家游戏由一个生成器和两个鉴别器组成,以制定两种不同类型的对抗学习:外观对抗学习和结构对抗学习。这两种类型的对抗学习交替训练,以确保真实的图像合成和语义结构的保留。在未配对的髋关节 MR 到 CT 图像合成上的结果表明,与其他最先进的(SOTA)未配对的 MR 到 CT 图像合成方法相比,我们的方法在准确性和视觉质量方面产生了更好的合成 CT 图像。
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