DIST-CLIP: MRI Harmonization with Disentangled Anatomy-Contrast Representations
Revolutionizing MRI Data Harmonization for Clinical AI
DIST-CLIP addresses a critical bottleneck in medical AI: data heterogeneity in MRI scans. By disentangling anatomical content from image contrast and leveraging advanced vision-language models, it offers a flexible, accurate, and highly generalizable solution for standardizing MRI data across diverse scanners and protocols. This capability is pivotal for robust clinical deployment of deep learning models.
DIST-CLIP's Impact on MRI Harmonization Quality
31.8 dB
PSNR (Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio)
0.973
SSIM (Structural Similarity Index)
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DIST-CLIP's innovative architecture centers on explicitly separating anatomical structure from acquisition-dependent contrast. This disentanglement is achieved through a dedicated Anatomy Mapper, while contrast information is encoded using pre-trained MR-CLIP encoders, allowing for flexible guidance via target images or DICOM metadata. The Style Fusion Decoder then synthesizes harmonized images by integrating these distinct representations.
DIST-CLIP's Harmonization Workflow
Source MRI Input
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Anatomy Mapper (βsrc)
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CLIP Encoders (θi or θm)
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Adaptive Style Transfer (AST)
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Style Fusion Decoder (SFD)
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Harmonized MRI Output
Evaluations on diverse real-world clinical datasets and external out-of-distribution public datasets demonstrate DIST-CLIP's superior performance in style translation fidelity and anatomical preservation compared to state-of-the-art methods. Its ability to handle both image-guided and metadata-guided harmonization, even in zero-shot settings, highlights its strong generalization capabilities.
| Model | Average PSNR (dB) | Average SSIM |
|---|---|---|
| HACA3 | 23.5 | 0.91 |
| TUMSyn | 21.0 | 0.88 |
| DIST-CLIP/T (Text-Guided) | 28.4 | 0.95 |
| DIST-CLIP/I (Image-Guided) | 28.7 | 0.95 |
DIST-CLIP significantly advances MRI harmonization, enabling more consistent multi-site imaging pipelines and reliable deployment of clinical AI models. Future work will focus on 3D extensions for volumetric coherence and rigorous evaluation of downstream utility, ensuring subtle but clinically meaningful intensity boundaries are preserved for tasks like tissue segmentation.
Case Study: Multi-Site Clinical Data Harmonization
In a real-world deployment across King's College Hospital and Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, DIST-CLIP successfully harmonized over 21,000 paired MRI volumes from 8,400+ subjects. This drastically reduced scanner- and protocol-induced variability, enabling improved consistency for downstream analysis and AI model training.
Outcome: Achieved significant improvements in data consistency and model robustness across diverse clinical settings, demonstrating the practical utility of disentangled anatomy-contrast representations.
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