Towards General Text-guided Image Synthesis for Customized Multimodal Brain MRI Generation

Fuente: arXiv
Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Wang, Yulin, Xiong, Honglin, Sun, Kaicong, Bai, Shuwei, Dai, Ling, Ding, Zhongxiang, Liu, Jiameng, Wang, Qian, Liu, Qian, Shen, Dinggang
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
Subjects:
Online Access:
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1866916410879377408
author Wang, Yulin
Xiong, Honglin
Sun, Kaicong
Bai, Shuwei
Dai, Ling
Ding, Zhongxiang
Liu, Jiameng
Wang, Qian
Liu, Qian
Shen, Dinggang
author_facet Wang, Yulin
Xiong, Honglin
Sun, Kaicong
Bai, Shuwei
Dai, Ling
Ding, Zhongxiang
Liu, Jiameng
Wang, Qian
Liu, Qian
Shen, Dinggang
contents Multimodal brain magnetic resonance (MR) imaging is indispensable in neuroscience and neurology. However, due to the accessibility of MRI scanners and their lengthy acquisition time, multimodal MR images are not commonly available. Current MR image synthesis approaches are typically trained on independent datasets for specific tasks, leading to suboptimal performance when applied to novel datasets and tasks. Here, we present TUMSyn, a Text-guided Universal MR image Synthesis generalist model, which can flexibly generate brain MR images with demanded imaging metadata from routinely acquired scans guided by text prompts. To ensure TUMSyn's image synthesis precision, versatility, and generalizability, we first construct a brain MR database comprising 31,407 3D images with 7 MRI modalities from 13 centers. We then pre-train an MRI-specific text encoder using contrastive learning to effectively control MR image synthesis based on text prompts. Extensive experiments on diverse datasets and physician assessments indicate that TUMSyn can generate clinically meaningful MR images with specified imaging metadata in supervised and zero-shot scenarios. Therefore, TUMSyn can be utilized along with acquired MR scan(s) to facilitate large-scale MRI-based screening and diagnosis of brain diseases.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2409_16818
institution arXiv
publishDate 2024
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Towards General Text-guided Image Synthesis for Customized Multimodal Brain MRI Generation
Wang, Yulin
Xiong, Honglin
Sun, Kaicong
Bai, Shuwei
Dai, Ling
Ding, Zhongxiang
Liu, Jiameng
Wang, Qian
Liu, Qian
Shen, Dinggang
Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Multimodal brain magnetic resonance (MR) imaging is indispensable in neuroscience and neurology. However, due to the accessibility of MRI scanners and their lengthy acquisition time, multimodal MR images are not commonly available. Current MR image synthesis approaches are typically trained on independent datasets for specific tasks, leading to suboptimal performance when applied to novel datasets and tasks. Here, we present TUMSyn, a Text-guided Universal MR image Synthesis generalist model, which can flexibly generate brain MR images with demanded imaging metadata from routinely acquired scans guided by text prompts. To ensure TUMSyn's image synthesis precision, versatility, and generalizability, we first construct a brain MR database comprising 31,407 3D images with 7 MRI modalities from 13 centers. We then pre-train an MRI-specific text encoder using contrastive learning to effectively control MR image synthesis based on text prompts. Extensive experiments on diverse datasets and physician assessments indicate that TUMSyn can generate clinically meaningful MR images with specified imaging metadata in supervised and zero-shot scenarios. Therefore, TUMSyn can be utilized along with acquired MR scan(s) to facilitate large-scale MRI-based screening and diagnosis of brain diseases.
title Towards General Text-guided Image Synthesis for Customized Multimodal Brain MRI Generation
topic Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.16818