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使用深度学习进行回溯性高质量MRI恢复的边缘、结构和纹理细化

Edge, Structure and Texture Refinement for Retrospective High Quality MRI Restoration using Deep Learning

Hao Li, Jianan Liu

摘要:

22.缩短采集时间和减少运动伪影是磁共振成像的两个关键问题。作为一种有前途的解决方案,高质量的MRI图像恢复提供了一种新的方法,以实现更高的分辨率,而无需花费额外的采集时间或修改的脉冲序列。最近,随着深度学习的兴起,卷积神经网络已经被提出用于MRI的超分辨率(SR)图像生成和运动伪影减少(MAR)。近年来的研究表明,利用感知特征空间损失和k空间损失分别捕获图像的感知信息和高频信息。然而,重建的SR和MAR MR图像的质量是有限的,因为MR图像中的信息区域的最重要的细节,边缘和结构,不能很好地恢复。此外,许多SR方法是通过使用双三次或模糊降尺度退化生成的低分辨率图像来训练的,这不能代表MRI测量的真实过程。这种不一致性也导致SR图像重建中的性能下降。这项研究表明,使用SSIM的L1损失和梯度图边缘质量损失可以迫使深度学习模型专注于研究MR图像的边缘特征和结构细节,从而生成具有更准确,更丰富信息和减少运动伪影的SR图像。我们采用最先进的模型RCAN作为SR和MAR任务的网络框架,通过使用低分辨率图像和运动伪影影响的图像来训练模型,这些图像是通过模拟在实际MRI测量中如何测量而生成的,以确保模型可以很容易地应用于实际临床环境,并验证训练后的模型可以很好地工作。

英文摘要:

22. Shortening acquisition time and reducing the motion-artifact are two of the most critical issues in MRI. As a promising solution, high-quality MRI image restoration provides a new approach to achieve higher resolution without costing additional acquisition time or modification on the pulse sequences. Recently, as to the rise of deep learning, convolutional neural networks have been proposed for super-resolution (SR) image generation and motion-artifact reduction (MAR) for MRI. Recent studies suggest that using perceptual feature space loss and k space loss to capture the perceptual information and high-frequency information of images, respectively. However, the quality of reconstructed SR and MAR MR images is limited because the most important details of the informative area in the MR image, the edges and the structure, cannot be very well restored. Besides, lots of the SR approaches are trained by using low-resolution images generated by applying bicubic or blur-downscale degradation, which cannot represent the real process of MRI measurement. Such inconsistencies lead to performance degradation in the reconstruction of SR images as well. This study reveals that using the L1 loss of SSIM and gradient map edge quality loss could force the deep learning model to focus on studying the features of edges and structure details of MR images, thus generating SR images with more accurate, fruitful information and reduced motion-artifact. We employed a state-of-the-art model, RCAN, as the network framework in both SR and MAR tasks, trained the model by using low-resolution images and motion-artifact affected images which were generated by emulating how they are measured in the real MRI measurement to ensure the model can be easily applied in the practical clinic environment, and verified the trained model could work fairly well.

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