Abstract
Image-based diagnosis routinely depends on more that one image modality for exploiting the complementary information they provide. However, it is not always possible to obtain images from a secondary modality for several reasons such as cost, degree of invasiveness and non-availability of scanners. Three-dimensional (3D) morphable models have made a significant contribution to the field of medical imaging for feature-based analysis. Here we extend their use to encode 3D volumetric imaging modalities. Specifically, we build a Gaussian Process (GP) over transformations establishing anatomical correspondence between training images within a modality. Given, two different modalities, the GP's eigenspace (latent space) can then be used to provide a parametric representation of each image modality, and we provide an operator for cross-domain translation between the two. We show that the latent space yields samples that are representative of the encoded modality. We also demonstrate that a 3D volumetric image can be efficiently encoded in latent space and transferred to synthesize the corresponding image in another modality. The framework called VIGPM can be extended by designing a fitting process to learn an observation in a given modality and performing cross-modality synthesis. Clinical Relevance- The proposed method provides a way to access a multi modality image from one modality. Both the source and synthetic modalities are in anatomical correspondence giving access to registered complementary information.
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