Unified Brain MR-Ultrasound Synthesis Using Multi-modal Hierarchical Representations

Reuben Dorent*, Nazim Haouchine, Fryderyk Kogl, Samuel Joutard, Parikshit Juvekar, Erickson Torio, Alexandra J. Golby, Sebastien Ourselin, Sarah Frisken, Tom Vercauteren, Tina Kapur, William M. Wells III

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Abstract

We introduce MHVAE, a deep hierarchical variational auto-encoder (VAE) that synthesizes missing images from various modalities. Extending multi-modal VAEs with a hierarchical latent structure, we introduce a probabilistic formulation for fusing multi-modal images in a common latent representation while having the flexibility to handle incomplete image sets as input. Moreover, adversarial learning is employed to generate sharper images. Extensive experiments are performed on the challenging problem of joint intra-operative ultrasound (iUS) and Magnetic Resonance (MR) synthesis. Our model outperformed multi-modal VAEs, conditional GANs, and the current state-of-the-art unified method (ResViT) for synthesizing missing images, demonstrating the advantage of using a hierarchical latent representation and a principled probabilistic fusion operation. Our code is publicly available (https://github.com/ReubenDo/MHVAE ).

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMedical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2023
Subtitle of host publication26th International Conference, Vancouver, BC, Canada, October 8–12, 2023, Proceedings, Part X
EditorsHayit Greenspan, Anant Madabhushi, Parvin Mousavi, Septimiu Salcudean, James Duncan, Tanveer Syeda-Mahmood, Russell Taylor
Place of PublicationCham
PublisherSpringer Nature
Pages448-458
Number of pages11
ISBN (Electronic)9783031439995
ISBN (Print)9783031439988
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2 Oct 2023
Event26th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2023 - Vancouver, Canada
Duration: 8 Oct 202312 Oct 2023

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume14229
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference26th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2023
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityVancouver
Period8/10/202312/10/2023

Keywords

  • Brain Resection
  • Image Synthesis
  • Ultrasound
  • Variational Auto-Encoder

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