Lack of early diagnosis often results in patients with Alzheimer progressing to irreversible mild to moderate cognitive impairment without timely treatment. The deposition of amyloid-beta (A beta) in the cerebral cortex, a definitive biomarker for Alzheimer's disease, is detectable through AV45 PET scans, facilitating early diagnosis of the condition. Clinically, accurate quantification of AV45 PET scans necessitate T1 images. However, the prevalent use of PET-CT over PET-MRI equipment entails additional MRI scans, leading to increased costs and patient burden. To address this clinical challenge, this paper proposes the structure-preserving denoising diffusion probabilistic model (SP-DDPM), capable of synthesizing the T1 images from AV45 PET scans. In the SP-DDPM, structural details from T1 images are incorporated into the diffusion model to emphasize anatomical accuracy. We also enhance the model's learning for the targeted brain areas using segmentation-based priors. Moreover, an exponential cosine noise strategy is proposed to improve the model's suitability for generating T1 images. In this study, we incorporated a large-scale cohort of 667 subjects from the ADNI and SILCODE databases to train and validate our models. The MR images generated from AV45 PET demonstrated similar signal patterns to real MR images. The average absolute error of the cortical composite region SUVR, estimated using our method, was 0.018 for the ADNI dataset and 0.041 for the SILCODE dataset, outperforming current techniques. The MR images generated by the SP-DDPM serve as an accurate template for amyloid quantification, facilitating precise AV45 PET scan quantification in the absence of real MR images. The application of this method is poised to streamline the diagnostic workflow for Alzheimer's disease, increase clinical work efficiency, and alleviate patient burden.
基金:
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under grant (62276081, 62106113, 82020108013, 82327809), in
part by the National Key Research and Development Program of China under grant 2021YFC2501202, in part by the Major Key Project of Peng Cheng
Laboratory under grant PCL2023A09-004,
in part by the Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation (2023A1515010792, 2023B1515120065),
in part by the Shenzhen Science and Technology Program (GXWD20231129121139001, JCYJ20240813110522029), in part by the STI2030-Major
Projects
(2022ZD0211800), Sino-German
Cooperation grant (M-0759),
Shenzhen Bay Scholars Program and Tianchi Scholars Program, and the Major Key Project of
PCL (PCL2021A06).
第一作者机构:[1]Harbin Inst Technol Shenzhen, Sch Elect & Informat Engn, Shenzhen, Peoples R China[2]Harbin Inst Technol Shenzhen, Sch Biomed Engn, Shenzhen, Peoples R China
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通讯作者:
通讯机构:[2]Harbin Inst Technol Shenzhen, Sch Biomed Engn, Shenzhen, Peoples R China[3]Peng Cheng Lab, Shenzhen, Guangdong, Peoples R China[4]Harbin Inst Technol Shenzhen, Guangdong Prov Key Lab Aerosp Commun & Networking, Shenzhen, Peoples R China[5]Capital Med Univ, Xuanwu Hosp, Dept Neurol, Beijing, Peoples R China[6]Hainan Univ, Sch Biomed Engn, Haikou, Hainan, Peoples R China[7]Beijing Inst Brain Disorders, Ctr Alzheimers Dis, Beijing, Peoples R China[8]Natl Clin Res Ctr Geriatr Disorders, Beijing, Peoples R China[9]Shenzhen Bay Lab, Inst Biomed Engn, Shenzhen, Guangdong, Peoples R China[10]Cent Hosp Karamay, Xinjiang, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式(GB/T 7714):
Guo Xutao,Ye Chenfei,Zhang Mingkai,et al.A Structure-Preserving Denoising Diffusion Model for AV45 PET Quantification Without MRI in Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis[J].INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF IMAGING SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGY.2025,35(3):doi:10.1002/ima.70074.
APA:
Guo, Xutao,Ye, Chenfei,Zhang, Mingkai,Hao, Xingyu,Yang, Yanwu...&Han, Ying.(2025).A Structure-Preserving Denoising Diffusion Model for AV45 PET Quantification Without MRI in Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis.INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF IMAGING SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGY,35,(3)
MLA:
Guo, Xutao,et al."A Structure-Preserving Denoising Diffusion Model for AV45 PET Quantification Without MRI in Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis".INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF IMAGING SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGY 35..3(2025)