{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/cytran-cycle-consistent-transformers-for-non","title":"CyTran: A Cycle-Consistent Transformer with Multi-Level Consistency for Non-Contrast to Contrast CT Translation","arxiv_id":"2110.06400","date":"2021-10-12","proceeding":null,"authors":["Nicolae-Catalin Ristea","Andreea-Iuliana Miron","Olivian Savencu","Mariana-Iuliana Georgescu","Nicolae Verga","Fahad Shahbaz Khan","Radu Tudor Ionescu"],"abstract":"We propose a novel approach to translate unpaired contrast computed tomography (CT) scans to non-contrast CT scans and the other way around. Solving this task has two important applications: (i) to automatically generate contrast CT scans for patients for whom injecting contrast substance is not an option, and (ii) to enhance the alignment between contrast and non-contrast CT by reducing the differences induced by the contrast substance before registration. Our approach is based on cycle-consistent generative adversarial convolutional transformers, for short, CyTran. Our neural model can be trained on unpaired images, due to the integration of a multi-level cycle-consistency loss. Aside from the standard cycle-consistency loss applied at the image level, we propose to apply additional cycle-consistency losses between intermediate feature representations, which enforces the model to be cycle-consistent at multiple representations levels, leading to superior results. To deal with high-resolution images, we design a hybrid architecture based on convolutional and multi-head attention layers. In addition, we introduce a novel data set, Coltea-Lung-CT-100W, containing 100 3D triphasic lung CT scans (with a total of 37,290 images) collected from 100 female patients (there is one examination per patient). Each scan contains three phases (non-contrast, early portal venous, and late arterial), allowing us to perform experiments to compare our novel approach with state-of-the-art methods for image style transfer. Our empirical results show that CyTran outperforms all competing methods. Moreover, we show that CyTran can be employed as a preliminary step to improve a state-of-the-art medical image alignment method. We release our novel model and data set as open source at https://github.com/ristea/cycle-transformer.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.06400v3","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2110.06400v3.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"cytran-cycle-consistent-transformers-for-non","repo_url":"https://github.com/ristea/cycle-transformer","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"pytorch","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"computed-tomography-ct","task_name":"Computed Tomography (CT)"},{"task_slug":"style-transfer","task_name":"Style Transfer"},{"task_slug":"translation","task_name":"Translation"}],"methods":[{"method_slug":"linear-layer","method_name":"Linear Layer"},{"method_slug":"softmax","method_name":"Softmax"}],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=2110.06400","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}