Structure-constrained Language-informed Diffusion Model for Unpaired Low-dose Computed Tomography Angiography Reconstruction

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2601.20304v1
• Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2026 06:54:06 GMT
• Title: Structure-constrained Language-informed Diffusion Model for Unpaired Low-dose Computed Tomography Angiography Reconstruction
• Authors: Genyuan Zhang, Zihao Wang, Zhifan Gao, Lei Xu, Zhen Zhou, Haijun Yu, Jianjia Zhang, Xiujian Liu, Weiwei Zhang, Shaoyu Wang, Huazhu Fu, Fenglin Liu, Weiwen Wu,
• Abstract summary: overdose of iodinated contrast media (ICM) can cause kidney damage and life-threatening allergic reactions.<n>Deep learning methods can generate CT images of normal-dose ICM from low-dose ICM, reducing the required dose.<n>We propose a Structure-constrained Language-informed Diffusion Model (SLDM) that integrates structural synergy and spatial intelligence.
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• Abstract: The application of iodinated contrast media (ICM) improves the sensitivity and specificity of computed tomography (CT) for a wide range of clinical indications. However, overdose of ICM can cause problems such as kidney damage and life-threatening allergic reactions. Deep learning methods can generate CT images of normal-dose ICM from low-dose ICM, reducing the required dose while maintaining diagnostic power. However, existing methods are difficult to realize accurate enhancement with incompletely paired images, mainly because of the limited ability of the model to recognize specific structures. To overcome this limitation, we propose a Structure-constrained Language-informed Diffusion Model (SLDM), a unified medical generation model that integrates structural synergy and spatial intelligence. First, the structural prior information of the image is effectively extracted to constrain the model inference process, thus ensuring structural consistency in the enhancement process. Subsequently, semantic supervision strategy with spatial intelligence is introduced, which integrates the functions of visual perception and spatial reasoning, thus prompting the model to achieve accurate enhancement. Finally, the subtraction angiography enhancement module is applied, which serves to improve the contrast of the ICM agent region to suitable interval for observation. Qualitative analysis of visual comparison and quantitative results of several metrics demonstrate the effectiveness of our method in angiographic reconstruction for low-dose contrast medium CT angiography.

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