학술논문

MR Image Harmonization with Transformer
Document Type
Conference
Source
2023 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA) Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA), 2023 IEEE International Conference on. :2448-2453 Aug, 2023
Subject
Bioengineering
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Computing and Processing
Robotics and Control Systems
Signal Processing and Analysis
Measurement
Visualization
Image segmentation
Protocols
Mechatronics
Image resolution
Magnetic resonance imaging
MRI
harmonization
Transformer
self-attention
hippocampus segmentation
ADNI
Language
ISSN
2152-744X
Abstract
Many clinical applications require medical image harmonization to combine and normalize images from different scanners or protocols. This paper introduces a Transformer-based MR image harmonization method. Our proposed method leverages the self-attention mechanism of the Transformer to learn the complex relationships between image patches and effectively transfer the imaging characteristics from a source image domain to a target image domain. We evaluate our approach to state-of-the-art methods using a publicly available dataset of brain MRI scans and show that it provides superior quantitative metrics and visual quality. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the proposed approach is highly resistant to fluctuations in image modality, resolution, and noise. Overall, the experiment results indicate that our approach is a promising method for medical image harmonization that can improve the accuracy and reliability of automated analysis and diagnosis in clinical settings.