Hyperfine Research, Guilford, CT, USA; Department of Biomedical Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
Hyperfine Research, Guilford, CT, USA.
Med Image Anal. 2022 Oct;81:102538. doi: 10.1016/j.media.2022.102538. Epub 2022 Jul 18.
While enabling accelerated acquisition and improved reconstruction accuracy, current deep MRI reconstruction networks are typically supervised, require fully sampled data, and are limited to Cartesian sampling patterns. These factors limit their practical adoption as fully-sampled MRI is prohibitively time-consuming to acquire clinically. Further, non-Cartesian sampling patterns are particularly desirable as they are more amenable to acceleration and show improved motion robustness. To this end, we present a fully self-supervised approach for accelerated non-Cartesian MRI reconstruction which leverages self-supervision in both k-space and image domains. In training, the undersampled data are split into disjoint k-space domain partitions. For the k-space self-supervision, we train a network to reconstruct the input undersampled data from both the disjoint partitions and from itself. For the image-level self-supervision, we enforce appearance consistency obtained from the original undersampled data and the two partitions. Experimental results on our simulated multi-coil non-Cartesian MRI dataset demonstrate that DDSS can generate high-quality reconstruction that approaches the accuracy of the fully supervised reconstruction, outperforming previous baseline methods. Finally, DDSS is shown to scale to highly challenging real-world clinical MRI reconstruction acquired on a portable low-field (0.064 T) MRI scanner with no data available for supervised training while demonstrating improved image quality as compared to traditional reconstruction, as determined by a radiologist study.
虽然当前的深度 MRI 重建网络能够实现加速采集和提高重建精度,但它们通常需要完全采样的数据,并仅限于笛卡尔采样模式。这些因素限制了它们的实际应用,因为完全采样的 MRI 在临床实践中采集非常耗时。此外,非笛卡尔采样模式特别受欢迎,因为它们更适合加速,并且显示出更好的运动鲁棒性。为此,我们提出了一种完全自监督的加速非笛卡尔 MRI 重建方法,该方法在 k 空间和图像域中都利用了自监督。在训练中,欠采样数据被分为不相交的 k 空间域分区。对于 k 空间自监督,我们训练一个网络从不相交的分区和自身重建输入的欠采样数据。对于图像级自监督,我们强制从原始欠采样数据和两个分区获得外观一致性。在我们的模拟多通道非笛卡尔 MRI 数据集上的实验结果表明,DDSS 可以生成高质量的重建,其准确性接近完全监督重建,优于以前的基线方法。最后,DDSS 被证明可以扩展到具有挑战性的现实世界临床 MRI 重建,该重建是在便携式低场(0.064 T)MRI 扫描仪上采集的,没有可用于监督训练的数据,同时与传统重建相比,展示出了更高的图像质量,这是由放射科医生研究确定的。