Jie Luo

Dr. Jie Luo

Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA

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Academic Career Length

2Years (2025-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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13 October 2025 in Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics
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TZTeng Zhou
Teng Zhou
JLJie Luo
Jie Luo
YSYunping Sun
Yunping Sun
YTYiheng Tan
Yiheng Tan
SYShun Yao
Shun Yao
SRScott Raymond
Scott Raymond

6 May 2025 in arXiv
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TZTeng Zhou
Teng Zhou
JLJie Luo
Jie Luo
YSYunping Sun
Yunping Sun
YTYiheng Tan
Yiheng Tan
SYShun Yao
Shun Yao
SRScott Raymond
Scott Raymond
Accurate MRI-to-CT translation promises the integration of complementary imaging information without the need for additional imaging sessions. Given the practical challenges associated with acquiring paired MRI and CT scans, the development of robust methods capable of leveraging unpaired datasets is essential for advancing the MRI-to-CT translation. Current unpaired MRI-to-CT translation methods, which predominantly rely on cycle consistency and contrastive learning frameworks, frequently encounter challenges in accurately translating anatomical features that are highly discernible on CT but less distinguishable on MRI, such as bone structures. This limitation renders these approaches less suitable for applications in radiation therapy, where precise bone representation is essential for accurate treatment planning. To address this challenge, we propose a path- and bone-contour regularized approach for unpaired MRI-to-CT translation. In our method, MRI and CT images are projected to a shared latent space, where the MRI-to-CT mapping is modeled as a continuous flow governed by neural ordinary differential equations. The optimal mapping is obtained by minimizing the transition path length of the flow. To enhance the accuracy of translated bone structures, we introduce a trainable neural network to generate bone contours from MRI and implement mechanisms to directly and indirectly encourage the model to focus on bone contours and their adjacent regions. Evaluations conducted on three datasets demonstrate that our method outperforms existing unpaired MRI-to-CT translation approaches, achieving lower overall error rates. Moreover, in a downstream bone segmentation task, our approach exhibits superior performance in preserving the fidelity of bone structures. Our code is available at: https://github.com/kennysyp/PaBoT.