DiCyc: GAN-based deformation invariant cross-domain information fusion for medical image synthesis
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Journal Article
Abstract
Cycle-consistent generative adversarial network (CycleGAN) has been widely used for cross-domain medical image synthesis tasks particularly due to its ability to deal with unpaired data. However, most CycleGAN-based synthesis methods cannot achieve good alignment between the synthesized images and data from the source domain, even with additional image alignment losses. This is because the CycleGAN generator network can encode the relative deformations and noises associated to different domains. This can be detrimental for the downstream applications that rely on the synthesized images, such as generating pseudo-CT for PET-MR attenuation correction. In this paper, we present a deformation invariant cycle-consistency model that can filter out these domain-specific deformation. The deformation is globally parameterized by thin-plate-spline (TPS), and locally learned by modified deformable convolutional layers. Robustness to domain-specific deformations has been evaluated through experiments on multi-sequence brain MR data and multi-modality abdominal CT and MR data. Experiment results demonstrated that our method can achieve better alignment between the source and target data while maintaining superior image quality of signal compared to several state-of-the-art CycleGAN-based methods.
Date Issued
2021-03-01
Date Acceptance
2020-10-23
Citation
Information Fusion, 2021, 67, pp.147-160
ISSN
1566-2535
Publisher
Elsevier
Start Page
147
End Page
160
Journal / Book Title
Information Fusion
Volume
67
Copyright Statement
© 2020 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Sponsor
British Heart Foundation
Grant Number
PG/16/78/32402
Subjects
0801 Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2020-10-23