Unrolled Optimization via Physics-Assisted Convolutional Neural Network for MR-Based Electrical Properties Tomography: A Numerical Investigation

Autor: Sabrina Zumbo, Stefano Mandija, Ettore F. Meliado, Peter Stijnman, Thierry G. Meerbothe, Cornelis A.T. van den Berg, Tommaso Isernia, Martina T. Bevacqua
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology, Vol 5, Pp 505-513 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2644-1276
DOI: 10.1109/OJEMB.2024.3402998
Popis: Magnetic Resonance imaging based Electrical Properties Tomography (MR-EPT) is a non-invasive technique that measures the electrical properties (EPs) of biological tissues. In this work, we present and numerically investigate the performance of an unrolled, physics-assisted method for 2D MR-EPT reconstructions, where a cascade of Convolutional Neural Networks is used to compute the contrast update. Each network takes in input the EPs and the gradient descent direction (encoding the physics underlying the adopted scattering model) and returns as output the updated contrast function. The network is trained and tested in silico using 2D slices of realistic brain models at 128 MHz. Results show the capability of the proposed procedure to reconstruct EPs maps with quality comparable to that of the popular Contrast Source Inversion-EPT, while significantly reducing the computational time.
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