Reliable Multi-modal Medical Image-to-image Translation Independent of Pixel-wise Aligned Data

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2408.14270v1
• Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2024 13:45:58 GMT
• Title: Reliable Multi-modal Medical Image-to-image Translation Independent of Pixel-wise Aligned Data
• Authors: Langrui Zhou, Guang Li,
• Abstract summary: We develop a novel multi-modal medical image-to-image translation model independent of pixel-wise aligned data (MITIA) MITIA achieves superior performance compared to six other state-of-the-art image-to-image translation methods.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: The current mainstream multi-modal medical image-to-image translation methods face a contradiction. Supervised methods with outstanding performance rely on pixel-wise aligned training data to constrain the model optimization. However, obtaining pixel-wise aligned multi-modal medical image datasets is challenging. Unsupervised methods can be trained without paired data, but their reliability cannot be guaranteed. At present, there is no ideal multi-modal medical image-to-image translation method that can generate reliable translation results without the need for pixel-wise aligned data. This work aims to develop a novel medical image-to-image translation model that is independent of pixel-wise aligned data (MITIA), enabling reliable multi-modal medical image-to-image translation under the condition of misaligned training data. The proposed MITIA model utilizes a prior extraction network composed of a multi-modal medical image registration module and a multi-modal misalignment error detection module to extract pixel-level prior information from training data with misalignment errors to the largest extent. The extracted prior information is then used to construct a regularization term to constrain the optimization of the unsupervised cycle-consistent GAN model, restricting its solution space and thereby improving the performance and reliability of the generator. We trained the MITIA model using six datasets containing different misalignment errors and two well-aligned datasets. Subsequently, we compared the proposed method with six other state-of-the-art image-to-image translation methods. The results of both quantitative analysis and qualitative visual inspection indicate that MITIA achieves superior performance compared to the competing state-of-the-art methods, both on misaligned data and aligned data.

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