Morphological-consistent Diffusion Network for Ultrasound Coronal Image Enhancement
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| author | Zhou, Yihao Huang, Zixun Lee, Timothy Tin-Yan Wu, Chonglin Lai, Kelly Ka-Lee Yang, De Hung, Alec Lik-hang Cheng, Jack Chun-Yiu Lam, Tsz-Ping Zheng, Yong-ping |
| author_facet | Zhou, Yihao Huang, Zixun Lee, Timothy Tin-Yan Wu, Chonglin Lai, Kelly Ka-Lee Yang, De Hung, Alec Lik-hang Cheng, Jack Chun-Yiu Lam, Tsz-Ping Zheng, Yong-ping |
| contents | Ultrasound curve angle (UCA) measurement provides a radiation-free and reliable evaluation for scoliosis based on ultrasound imaging. However, degraded image quality, especially in difficult-to-image patients, can prevent clinical experts from making confident measurements, even leading to misdiagnosis. In this paper, we propose a multi-stage image enhancement framework that models high-quality image distribution via a diffusion-based model. Specifically, we integrate the underlying morphological information from images taken at different depths of the 3D volume to calibrate the reverse process toward high-quality and high-fidelity image generation. This is achieved through a fusion operation with a learnable tuner module that learns the multi-to-one mapping from multi-depth to high-quality images. Moreover, the separate learning of the high-quality image distribution and the spinal features guarantees the preservation of consistent spinal pose descriptions in the generated images, which is crucial in evaluating spinal deformities. Remarkably, our proposed enhancement algorithm significantly outperforms other enhancement-based methods on ultrasound images in terms of image quality. Ultimately, we conduct the intra-rater and inter-rater measurements of UCA and higher ICC (0.91 and 0.89 for thoracic and lumbar angles) on enhanced images, indicating our method facilitates the measurement of ultrasound curve angles and offers promising prospects for automated scoliosis diagnosis. |
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| spellingShingle | Morphological-consistent Diffusion Network for Ultrasound Coronal Image Enhancement Zhou, Yihao Huang, Zixun Lee, Timothy Tin-Yan Wu, Chonglin Lai, Kelly Ka-Lee Yang, De Hung, Alec Lik-hang Cheng, Jack Chun-Yiu Lam, Tsz-Ping Zheng, Yong-ping Image and Video Processing Ultrasound curve angle (UCA) measurement provides a radiation-free and reliable evaluation for scoliosis based on ultrasound imaging. However, degraded image quality, especially in difficult-to-image patients, can prevent clinical experts from making confident measurements, even leading to misdiagnosis. In this paper, we propose a multi-stage image enhancement framework that models high-quality image distribution via a diffusion-based model. Specifically, we integrate the underlying morphological information from images taken at different depths of the 3D volume to calibrate the reverse process toward high-quality and high-fidelity image generation. This is achieved through a fusion operation with a learnable tuner module that learns the multi-to-one mapping from multi-depth to high-quality images. Moreover, the separate learning of the high-quality image distribution and the spinal features guarantees the preservation of consistent spinal pose descriptions in the generated images, which is crucial in evaluating spinal deformities. Remarkably, our proposed enhancement algorithm significantly outperforms other enhancement-based methods on ultrasound images in terms of image quality. Ultimately, we conduct the intra-rater and inter-rater measurements of UCA and higher ICC (0.91 and 0.89 for thoracic and lumbar angles) on enhanced images, indicating our method facilitates the measurement of ultrasound curve angles and offers promising prospects for automated scoliosis diagnosis. |
| title | Morphological-consistent Diffusion Network for Ultrasound Coronal Image Enhancement |
| topic | Image and Video Processing |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.16661 |