Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Cross-Modality Cerebrovascular Segmentation.

Abstract

Cerebrovascular segmentation from time-of-flight magnetic resonance angiography (TOF-MRA) and computed tomography angiography (CTA) is essential in providing supportive information for diagnosing and treatment planning of multiple intracranial vascular diseases. Different imaging modalities utilize distinct principles to visualize the cerebral vasculature, which leads to the limitations of expensive annotations and performance degradation while training and deploying deep learning models. In this paper, we propose an unsupervised domain adaptation framework CereTS to perform translation and segmentation of cross-modality unpaired cerebral angiography. Considering the commonality of vascular structures and stylistic textures as domain-invariant and domain-specific features, CereTS adopts a multi-level domain alignment pattern that includes an image-level cyclic geometric consistency constraint, a patch-level masked contrastive constraint and a feature-level semantic perception constraint to shrink domain discrepancy while preserving consistency of vascular structures. Conducted on a publicly available TOF-MRA dataset and a private CTA dataset, our experiment shows that CereTS outperforms current state-of-the-art methods by a large margin.