Enhancing Cross-Modality Synthesis: Subvolume Merging for MRI-to-CT Conversion

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Autori principali: Fan, Fuxin, Qiu, Jingna, Huang, Yixing, Maier, Andreas
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author Fan, Fuxin
Qiu, Jingna
Huang, Yixing
Maier, Andreas
author_facet Fan, Fuxin
Qiu, Jingna
Huang, Yixing
Maier, Andreas
contents Providing more precise tissue attenuation information, synthetic computed tomography (sCT) generated from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contributes to improved radiation therapy treatment planning. In our study, we employ the advanced SwinUNETR framework for synthesizing CT from MRI images. Additionally, we introduce a three-dimensional subvolume merging technique in the prediction process. By selecting an optimal overlap percentage for adjacent subvolumes, stitching artifacts are effectively mitigated, leading to a decrease in the mean absolute error (MAE) between sCT and the labels from 52.65 HU to 47.75 HU. Furthermore, implementing a weight function with a gamma value of 0.9 results in the lowest MAE within the same overlap area. By setting the overlap percentage between 50% and 70%, we achieve a balance between image quality and computational efficiency.
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spellingShingle Enhancing Cross-Modality Synthesis: Subvolume Merging for MRI-to-CT Conversion
Fan, Fuxin
Qiu, Jingna
Huang, Yixing
Maier, Andreas
Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Providing more precise tissue attenuation information, synthetic computed tomography (sCT) generated from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contributes to improved radiation therapy treatment planning. In our study, we employ the advanced SwinUNETR framework for synthesizing CT from MRI images. Additionally, we introduce a three-dimensional subvolume merging technique in the prediction process. By selecting an optimal overlap percentage for adjacent subvolumes, stitching artifacts are effectively mitigated, leading to a decrease in the mean absolute error (MAE) between sCT and the labels from 52.65 HU to 47.75 HU. Furthermore, implementing a weight function with a gamma value of 0.9 results in the lowest MAE within the same overlap area. By setting the overlap percentage between 50% and 70%, we achieve a balance between image quality and computational efficiency.
title Enhancing Cross-Modality Synthesis: Subvolume Merging for MRI-to-CT Conversion
topic Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.05982