Topogram-Gated Multi-Modal Pseudo-CT Synthesis for PET/MR Attenuation Correction
Abstract
As part of the Big Cross-Modal Attenuation Correction Challenge (BIC-MAC), we aimed to synthesise pseudo-CT images for PET/MR attenuation correction from whole-body non-attenuation-corrected PET (NAC-PET), Dixon MRI, and a two-dimensional topogram image. We developed a residual 3D U-Net in which a dedicated 2D topogram encoder provides bounded, multi-scale feature gating. The network was supervised jointly in CT and 511-keV attenuation-map space. Two complementary models, one emphasizing activity and cranial regions and one including a projection-domain attenuation-correction-factor regulariser, were combined by equal averaging in CT space. In controlled development experiments, the two training objectives yielded complementary error profiles. On the online BIC-MAC validation leaderboard, the ensemble achieved a mumap MAE of 0.005656, whole-body SUV MAE of 0.0356, organ bias of 2.65%, and brain outlier score of 0.0294. Topogram-gated multi-modal learning combines local volumetric information with global projected anatomy and provides a practical, physically informed approach to pseudo-CT synthesis for PET/MR.
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BibTeX
@misc{wuts2026topogramgated,
title = {{Topogram-Gated Multi-Modal Pseudo-CT Synthesis for PET/MR Attenuation Correction}},
author = {Joris Wuts and Jakub Ceranka and Vicky De Ridder and Jef Vandemeulebroucke},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.11966},
eprint = {2609.11966},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.11966},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Topogram-Gated Multi-Modal Pseudo-CT Synthesis for PET/MR Attenuation Correction
AU - Joris Wuts
AU - Jakub Ceranka
AU - Vicky De Ridder
AU - Jef Vandemeulebroucke
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/01
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.11966
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.11966
AB - As part of the Big Cross-Modal Attenuation Correction Challenge (BIC-MAC), we aimed to synthesise pseudo-CT images for PET/MR attenuation correction from whole-body non-attenuation-corrected PET (NAC-PET), Dixon MRI, and a two-dimensional topogram image. We developed a residual 3D U-Net in which a dedicated 2D topogram encoder provides bounded, multi-scale feature gating. The network was supervised jointly in CT and 511-keV attenuation-map space. Two complementary models, one emphasizing activity and cranial regions and one including a projection-domain attenuation-correction-factor regulariser, were combined by equal averaging in CT space. In controlled development experiments, the two training objectives yielded complementary error profiles. On the online BIC-MAC validation leaderboard, the ensemble achieved a mumap MAE of 0.005656, whole-body SUV MAE of 0.0356, organ bias of 2.65%, and brain outlier score of 0.0294. Topogram-gated multi-modal learning combines local volumetric information with global projected anatomy and provides a practical, physically informed approach to pseudo-CT synthesis for PET/MR.
ER -