Strategies to Minimize Out-of-Distribution Effects in Data-Driven MRS Quantification

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2511.23135v1
• Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2025 12:33:05 GMT
• Title: Strategies to Minimize Out-of-Distribution Effects in Data-Driven MRS Quantification
• Authors: Julian P. Merkofer, Antonia Kaiser, Anouk Schrantee, Oliver J. Gurney-Champion, Ruud J. G. van Sloun,
• Abstract summary: This study systematically compared data-driven and model-based strategies for metabolite quantification in magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS)<n>Supervised learning achieved high accuracy for spectra similar to those in the training distribution, but showed marked degradation when extrapolated beyond the training distribution.<n>Test-time adaptation proved more resilient to OoD effects, while self-supervised learning achieved intermediate performance.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: This study systematically compared data-driven and model-based strategies for metabolite quantification in magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS), focusing on resilience to out-of-distribution (OoD) effects and the balance between accuracy, robustness, and generalizability. A neural network designed for MRS quantification was trained using three distinct strategies: supervised regression, self-supervised learning, and test-time adaptation. These were compared against model-based fitting tools. Experiments combined large-scale simulated data, designed to probe metabolite concentration extrapolation and signal variability, with 1H single-voxel 7T in-vivo human brain spectra. In simulations, supervised learning achieved high accuracy for spectra similar to those in the training distribution, but showed marked degradation when extrapolated beyond the training distribution. Test-time adaptation proved more resilient to OoD effects, while self-supervised learning achieved intermediate performance. In-vivo experiments showed larger variance across the methods (data-driven and model-based) due to domain shift. Across all strategies, overlapping metabolites and baseline variability remained persistent challenges. While strong performance can be achieved by data-driven methods for MRS metabolite quantification, their reliability is contingent on careful consideration of the training distribution and potential OoD effects. When such conditions in the target distribution cannot be anticipated, test-time adaptation strategies ensure consistency between the quantification, the data, and the model, enabling reliable data-driven MRS pipelines.

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