Personalized synthetic MR imaging with deep learning enhancements

Autor: Subrata Pal, Somak Dutta, Ranjan Maitra
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Magnetic resonance in medicineREFERENCES.
ISSN: 1522-2594
Popis: Personalized synthetic MRI (syn-MRI) uses MR images of an individual subject acquired at a few design parameters (echo time, repetition time, flip angle) to obtain underlying parametricOur DL enhancements employ a Deep Image Prior (DIP) with a U-net type denoising architecture that includes situations with minimal training data, such as personalized syn-MRI. We provide a general workflow for syn-MRI from three or more training images. Our workflow, called DIPsyn-MRI, uses DIP to enhance training images, then obtains parametric images using LS or MLE before synthesizing images at desired design parameter settings. DIPsyn-MRI is implemented in our publicly available Python package DeepSynMRI available at: https://github.com/StatPal/DeepSynMRI.We demonstrate feasibility and improved performance of DIPsyn-MRI on 3D datasets acquired using the Brainweb interface for spin-echo and FLASH imaging sequences, at different noise levels. Our DL enhancements improve syn-MRI in the presence of different intensity nonuniformity levels of the magnetic field, for all but very low noise levels.This article provides recipes and software to realistically facilitate DL-enhanced personalized syn-MRI.
Databáze: OpenAIRE