CAS-IQA: Teaching Vision-Language Models for Synthetic Angiography Quality Assessment

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.17619v1
• Date: Fri, 23 May 2025 08:27:05 GMT
• Title: CAS-IQA: Teaching Vision-Language Models for Synthetic Angiography Quality Assessment
• Authors: Bo Wang, De-Xing Huang, Xiao-Hu Zhou, Mei-Jiang Gui, Nu-Fang Xiao, Jian-Long Hao, Ming-Yuan Liu, Zeng-Guang Hou,
• Abstract summary: Low-quality synthetic angiographies can significantly increase procedural risk.<n>This paper proposes CAS-IQA, a vision-language model (VLM)-based framework that predicts fine-grained quality scores.<n>Experiments on the CAS-3K dataset demonstrate that CAS-IQA significantly outperforms state-of-the-art IQA methods by a considerable margin.
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• Abstract: Synthetic X-ray angiographies generated by modern generative models hold great potential to reduce the use of contrast agents in vascular interventional procedures. However, low-quality synthetic angiographies can significantly increase procedural risk, underscoring the need for reliable image quality assessment (IQA) methods. Existing IQA models, however, fail to leverage auxiliary images as references during evaluation and lack fine-grained, task-specific metrics necessary for clinical relevance. To address these limitations, this paper proposes CAS-IQA, a vision-language model (VLM)-based framework that predicts fine-grained quality scores by effectively incorporating auxiliary information from related images. In the absence of angiography datasets, CAS-3K is constructed, comprising 3,565 synthetic angiographies along with score annotations. To ensure clinically meaningful assessment, three task-specific evaluation metrics are defined. Furthermore, a Multi-path featUre fuSion and rouTing (MUST) module is designed to enhance image representations by adaptively fusing and routing visual tokens to metric-specific branches. Extensive experiments on the CAS-3K dataset demonstrate that CAS-IQA significantly outperforms state-of-the-art IQA methods by a considerable margin.

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