DuDoUniNeXt: Dual-domain unified hybrid model for single and multi-contrast undersampled MRI reconstruction

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05256v1
• Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2024 12:26:48 GMT
• Title: DuDoUniNeXt: Dual-domain unified hybrid model for single and multi-contrast undersampled MRI reconstruction
• Authors: Ziqi Gao and Yue Zhang and Xinwen Liu and Kaiyan Li and S. Kevin Zhou
• Abstract summary: We propose DuDoUniNeXt, a unified dual-domain MRI reconstruction network that can accommodate to scenarios involving absent, low-quality, and high-quality reference images. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed model surpasses state-of-the-art SC and MC models significantly.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Multi-contrast (MC) Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) reconstruction aims to incorporate a reference image of auxiliary modality to guide the reconstruction process of the target modality. Known MC reconstruction methods perform well with a fully sampled reference image, but usually exhibit inferior performance, compared to single-contrast (SC) methods, when the reference image is missing or of low quality. To address this issue, we propose DuDoUniNeXt, a unified dual-domain MRI reconstruction network that can accommodate to scenarios involving absent, low-quality, and high-quality reference images. DuDoUniNeXt adopts a hybrid backbone that combines CNN and ViT, enabling specific adjustment of image domain and k-space reconstruction. Specifically, an adaptive coarse-to-fine feature fusion module (AdaC2F) is devised to dynamically process the information from reference images of varying qualities. Besides, a partially shared shallow feature extractor (PaSS) is proposed, which uses shared and distinct parameters to handle consistent and discrepancy information among contrasts. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed model surpasses state-of-the-art SC and MC models significantly. Ablation studies show the effectiveness of the proposed hybrid backbone, AdaC2F, PaSS, and the dual-domain unified learning scheme.

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