Improving Cone-Beam CT Image Quality with Knowledge Distillation-Enhanced Diffusion Model in Imbalanced Data Settings

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Auteurs principaux: Hwang, Joonil, Park, Sangjoon, Park, NaHyeon, Cho, Seungryong, Kim, Jin Sung
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author Hwang, Joonil
Park, Sangjoon
Park, NaHyeon
Cho, Seungryong
Kim, Jin Sung
author_facet Hwang, Joonil
Park, Sangjoon
Park, NaHyeon
Cho, Seungryong
Kim, Jin Sung
contents In radiation therapy (RT), the reliance on pre-treatment computed tomography (CT) images encounter challenges due to anatomical changes, necessitating adaptive planning. Daily cone-beam CT (CBCT) imaging, pivotal for therapy adjustment, falls short in tissue density accuracy. To address this, our innovative approach integrates diffusion models for CT image generation, offering precise control over data synthesis. Leveraging a self-training method with knowledge distillation, we maximize CBCT data during therapy, complemented by sparse paired fan-beam CTs. This strategy, incorporated into state-of-the-art diffusion-based models, surpasses conventional methods like Pix2pix and CycleGAN. A meticulously curated dataset of 2800 paired CBCT and CT scans, supplemented by 4200 CBCT scans, undergoes preprocessing and teacher model training, including the Brownian Bridge Diffusion Model (BBDM). Pseudo-label CT images are generated, resulting in a dataset combining 5600 CT images with corresponding CBCT images. Thorough evaluation using MSE, SSIM, PSNR and LPIPS demonstrates superior performance against Pix2pix and CycleGAN. Our approach shows promise in generating high-quality CT images from CBCT scans in RT.
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spellingShingle Improving Cone-Beam CT Image Quality with Knowledge Distillation-Enhanced Diffusion Model in Imbalanced Data Settings
Hwang, Joonil
Park, Sangjoon
Park, NaHyeon
Cho, Seungryong
Kim, Jin Sung
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
In radiation therapy (RT), the reliance on pre-treatment computed tomography (CT) images encounter challenges due to anatomical changes, necessitating adaptive planning. Daily cone-beam CT (CBCT) imaging, pivotal for therapy adjustment, falls short in tissue density accuracy. To address this, our innovative approach integrates diffusion models for CT image generation, offering precise control over data synthesis. Leveraging a self-training method with knowledge distillation, we maximize CBCT data during therapy, complemented by sparse paired fan-beam CTs. This strategy, incorporated into state-of-the-art diffusion-based models, surpasses conventional methods like Pix2pix and CycleGAN. A meticulously curated dataset of 2800 paired CBCT and CT scans, supplemented by 4200 CBCT scans, undergoes preprocessing and teacher model training, including the Brownian Bridge Diffusion Model (BBDM). Pseudo-label CT images are generated, resulting in a dataset combining 5600 CT images with corresponding CBCT images. Thorough evaluation using MSE, SSIM, PSNR and LPIPS demonstrates superior performance against Pix2pix and CycleGAN. Our approach shows promise in generating high-quality CT images from CBCT scans in RT.
title Improving Cone-Beam CT Image Quality with Knowledge Distillation-Enhanced Diffusion Model in Imbalanced Data Settings
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.12539