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ArticleNeural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society2025

Disentangled latent energy-based style translation: An image-level structural MRI harmonization framework.

Mengqi Wu, Lintao Zhang, Pew-Thian Yap, Hongtu Zhu, Mingxia Liu

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Article in Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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  3. Unpaired Multi-Site Brain MRI Harmonization with Image Style-Guided Latent Diffusion.Medical image computing and computer-assisted intervention : MICCAI ... International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention · 2026
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Mengqi WuDepartment of Radiology and Biomedical Research Imaging Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA; Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
Lintao ZhangDepartment of Radiology and Biomedical Research Imaging Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
Pew-Thian YapDepartment of Radiology and Biomedical Research Imaging Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
Hongtu ZhuDepartment of Biostatistics and Biomedical Research Imaging Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
Mingxia LiuDepartment of Radiology and Biomedical Research Imaging Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA. Electronic address: mingxia_liu@med.unc.edu.

Funding

Mapping the Causal Genetic-Imaging-Clinical Pathway for Alzheimer's DiseaseRF1AG082938 · NIA · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI Bingxin Zhao, Hongtu Zhu · 2023 to 2026
$3.6M
Optimized High-Resolution Fast Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting with Cloud-Based ReconstructionR01NS134849 · NINDS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI Yong Chen, Pew-Thian Yap · 2024 to 2026
$1.9M
Comprehensive MR Fingerprinting for Infants and Young Children at Risk for Developmental Delays.R01HD112923 · NICHD · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI Dan Ma, DEANNE E WILSON-COSTELLO · 2024 to 2026
$1.7M
Multi-Site Neuroimage Harmonization for Personalized Brain Disorder AnalysisRF1AG073297 · NIA · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI LIU, MINGXIA · 2022 to 2022
$1.4M
AI-Powered MRI Quality Control and Artifact Correction for Multi-Site StudiesR01EB035160 · NIBIB · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI Pew-Thian Yap · 2024 to 2026
$1.2M
Multi-Site Neuroimage Harmonization for Personalized Brain Disorder AnalysisR01AG073297 · NIA · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI Mingxia Liu · 2025 to 2026
$922k
NIA NIH HHS R01 AG073297NIA NIH HHS RF1 AG073297NIA NIH HHS RF1 AG082938NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB035160NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD112923NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS134849
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Abstract

Brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has been extensively employed across clinical and research fields, but often exhibits sensitivity to site effects arising from non-biological variations such as differences in field strength and scanner vendors. Numerous retrospective MRI harmonization techniques have demonstrated encouraging outcomes in reducing the site effects at image level. However, existing methods generally suffer from high computational requirements and limited generalizability, restricting their applicability to unseen MRIs. In this paper, we design a novel disentangled latent energy-based style translation (DLEST) framework for unpaired image-level MRI harmonization, consisting of (a) site-invariant image generation (SIG), (b) site-specific style translation (SST), and (c) site-specific MRI synthesis (SMS). Specifically, the SIG employs a latent autoencoder to encode MRIs into a low-dimensional latent space and reconstruct MRIs from latent codes. The SST utilizes an energy-based model to comprehend global latent distribution of a target domain and translate source latent codes towards the target domain, while SMS enables MRI synthesis with a target-specific style. By disentangling image generation and style translation in latent space, the DLEST can achieve efficient style translation. Our model was trained on T1-weighted MRIs from a public dataset (with 3,984 subjects across 58 acquisition sites/settings) and validated on an independent dataset (with 9 traveling subjects scanned in 11 sites/settings) in four tasks: histogram and feature visualization, site classification, brain tissue segmentation, and site-specific structural MRI synthesis. Qualitative and quantitative results demonstrate the superiority of our method over several state-of-the-arts.

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BrainImage Processing, Computer-AssistedMagnetic Resonance ImagingHumansEnergy-based modelMRI harmonizationMRI synthesisStyle translation

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PMID39700825
PMCPMC11802304

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