Encoding Enhanced Complex CNN for Accurate and Highly Accelerated MRI

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2306.11977v2
• Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2023 10:01:33 GMT
• Title: Encoding Enhanced Complex CNN for Accurate and Highly Accelerated MRI
• Authors: Zimeng Li, Sa Xiao, Cheng Wang, Haidong Li, Xiuchao Zhao, Caohui Duan, Qian Zhou, Qiuchen Rao, Yuan Fang, Junshuai Xie, Lei Shi, Fumin Guo, Chaohui Ye, Xin Zhou
• Abstract summary: We propose an encoding enhanced (EN2) complex CNN for highly undersampled pulmonary MRI reconstruction. EN2 employs convolution along either the frequency or phase-encoding direction, resembling the mechanisms of k-space sampling. We also employ complex convolution to learn rich representations from the complex k-space data.
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• Abstract: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) using hyperpolarized noble gases provides a way to visualize the structure and function of human lung, but the long imaging time limits its broad research and clinical applications. Deep learning has demonstrated great potential for accelerating MRI by reconstructing images from undersampled data. However, most existing deep conventional neural networks (CNN) directly apply square convolution to k-space data without considering the inherent properties of k-space sampling, limiting k-space learning efficiency and image reconstruction quality. In this work, we propose an encoding enhanced (EN2) complex CNN for highly undersampled pulmonary MRI reconstruction. EN2 employs convolution along either the frequency or phase-encoding direction, resembling the mechanisms of k-space sampling, to maximize the utilization of the encoding correlation and integrity within a row or column of k-space. We also employ complex convolution to learn rich representations from the complex k-space data. In addition, we develop a feature-strengthened modularized unit to further boost the reconstruction performance. Experiments demonstrate that our approach can accurately reconstruct hyperpolarized 129Xe and 1H lung MRI from 6-fold undersampled k-space data and provide lung function measurements with minimal biases compared with fully-sampled image. These results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithmic components and indicate that the proposed approach could be used for accelerated pulmonary MRI in research and clinical lung disease patient care.

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