Deng Liwei, Chen Songyu, Li Yunfa, Huang Sijuan, Yang Xin, Wang Jing
School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin University of Science and Technology, Harbin, 150080 Heilongjiang China.
Heilongjiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Complex Intelligent System and Integration, School of Automation, Harbin University of Science and Technology, Harbin, 150080 Heilongjiang China.
Biomed Eng Lett. 2024 Jun 22;14(6):1319-1333. doi: 10.1007/s13534-024-00402-2. eCollection 2024 Nov.
The purpose of this study is to investigate the influence of different magnetic resonance (MR) sequences on the accuracy of generating computed tomography (sCT) images for nasopharyngeal carcinoma based on CycleGAN. In this study, 143 patients' head and neck MR sequence (T1, T2, T1C, and T1DIXONC) and CT imaging data were acquired. The generator and discriminator of CycleGAN are improved to achieve the purpose of balance confrontation, and a cyclic consistent structure control domain is proposed in terms of loss function. Four different single-sequence MR images and one multi-sequence MR image were used to evaluate the accuracy of sCT. During the model testing phase, five testing scenarios were employed to further assess the mean absolute error, peak signal-to-noise ratio, structural similarity index, and root mean square error between the actual CT images and the sCT images generated by different models. T1 sequence-based sCT achieved better results in single-sequence MR-based sCT. Multi-sequence MR-based sCT achieved better results with T1 sequence-based sCT in terms of evaluation metrics. For metrological evaluation, the global gamma passage rate of sCT based on sequence MR was greater than 95% at 3%/3 mm, except for sCT based on T2 sequence MR. We developed a CycleGAN method to synthesize CT using different MR sequences, this method shows encouraging potential for dosimetric evaluation.
本研究的目的是基于CycleGAN研究不同磁共振(MR)序列对鼻咽癌计算机断层扫描(sCT)图像生成准确性的影响。本研究采集了143例患者的头颈部MR序列(T1、T2、T1C和T1DIXONC)及CT成像数据。对CycleGAN的生成器和判别器进行改进以实现平衡对抗的目的,并在损失函数方面提出了一种循环一致结构控制域。使用四种不同的单序列MR图像和一种多序列MR图像来评估sCT的准确性。在模型测试阶段,采用五种测试场景进一步评估实际CT图像与不同模型生成的sCT图像之间的平均绝对误差、峰值信噪比、结构相似性指数和均方根误差。基于T1序列的sCT在基于单序列MR的sCT中取得了更好的结果。在评估指标方面,基于多序列MR的sCT与基于T1序列的sCT取得了更好的结果。对于计量评估,基于序列MR的sCT在3%/3 mm时的全局γ通过率大于95%,基于T2序列MR的sCT除外。我们开发了一种使用不同MR序列合成CT的CycleGAN方法,该方法在剂量学评估方面显示出令人鼓舞的潜力。