Dual-Branch Squeeze-Fusion-Excitation Module for Cross-Modality Registration of Cardiac SPECT and CT

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2206.05278v1
• Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2022 01:44:06 GMT
• Title: Dual-Branch Squeeze-Fusion-Excitation Module for Cross-Modality Registration of Cardiac SPECT and CT
• Authors: Xiongchao Chen, Bo Zhou, Huidong Xie, Xueqi Guo, Jiazhen Zhang, Albert J. Sinusas, John A. Onofrey, Chi liu
• Abstract summary: We propose a Dual-Branch Squeeze-Fusion-Excitation (DuSFE) module for the registration of cardiac SPECT and CT-derived u-maps. DuSFE fuses the knowledge from multiple modalities to recalibrate both channel-wise and spatial features for each modality.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) is a widely applied imaging approach for diagnosis of coronary artery diseases. Attenuation maps (u-maps) derived from computed tomography (CT) are utilized for attenuation correction (AC) to improve diagnostic accuracy of cardiac SPECT. However, SPECT and CT are obtained sequentially in clinical practice, which potentially induces misregistration between the two scans. Convolutional neural networks (CNN) are powerful tools for medical image registration. Previous CNN-based methods for cross-modality registration either directly concatenated two input modalities as an early feature fusion or extracted image features using two separate CNN modules for a late fusion. These methods do not fully extract or fuse the cross-modality information. Besides, deep-learning-based rigid registration of cardiac SPECT and CT-derived u-maps has not been investigated before. In this paper, we propose a Dual-Branch Squeeze-Fusion-Excitation (DuSFE) module for the registration of cardiac SPECT and CT-derived u-maps. DuSFE fuses the knowledge from multiple modalities to recalibrate both channel-wise and spatial features for each modality. DuSFE can be embedded at multiple convolutional layers to enable feature fusion at different spatial dimensions. Our studies using clinical data demonstrated that a network embedded with DuSFE generated substantial lower registration errors and therefore more accurate AC SPECT images than previous methods.

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