Fast Dynamic Perfusion and Angiography Reconstruction Using an End-to-End 3D Convolutional Neural Network

Sahar Yousefi*, Lydiane Hirschler, Merlijn van der Plas, Mohamed S. Elmahdy, Hessam Sokooti, Matthias J P van Osch, Marius Staring

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Hadamard time-encoded pseudo-continuous arterial spin labeling (te-pCASL) is a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR)-efficient MRI technique for acquiring dynamic pCASL signals that encodes the temporal information into the labeling according to a Hadamard matrix. In the decoding step, the contribution of each sub-bolus can be isolated resulting in dynamic perfusion scans. When acquiring te-ASL both with and without flow-crushing, the ASL-signal in the arteries can be isolated resulting in 4D-angiographic information. However, obtaining multi-timepoint perfusion and angiographic data requires two acquisitions. In this study, we propose a 3D Dense-Unet convolutional neural network with a multi-level loss function for reconstructing multi-timepoint perfusion and angiographic information from an interleaved 50 % -sampled crushed and 50 % -sampled non-crushed data, thereby negating the additional scan time. We present a framework to generate dynamic pCASL training and validation data, based on models of the intravascular and extravascular te-pCASL signals. The proposed network achieved SSIM values of 97.3 ± 1.1 and 96.2 ± 11.1 respectively for 4D perfusion and angiographic data reconstruction for 313 test data-sets.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMachine Learning for Medical Image Reconstruction
Subtitle of host publication2nd International Workshop, MLMIR 2019, held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2019, Proceedings
EditorsFlorian Knoll, Andreas Maier, Daniel Rueckert, Jong Chul Ye
Place of PublicationCham
PublisherSpringer
Pages25-35
Number of pages11
Volume11905
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-030-33843-5
ISBN (Print)978-3-030-33842-8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2019
Event2nd International Workshop on Machine Learning for Medical Image Reconstruction, MLMIR 2019 held in Conjunction with 22nd International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2019 - Shenzhen, China
Duration: 17 Oct 201917 Oct 2019

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume11905
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference2nd International Workshop on Machine Learning for Medical Image Reconstruction, MLMIR 2019 held in Conjunction with 22nd International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2019
Country/TerritoryChina
CityShenzhen
Period17/10/1917/10/19

Keywords

  • 4D magnetic resonance angiography (MRA)
  • 4D perfusion
  • Convolutional neural network (CNN)
  • Hadamard time-encoded ASL
  • MRI reconstruction
  • Pseudo-continuous arterial spin labeling (pCASL)

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