Reconstructing High-Quality Diffusion MRI Data from Orthogonal Slice-Undersampled Data Using Graph Convolutional Neural Networks

Yoonmi Hong, Geng Chen, Pew Thian Yap, Dinggang Shen

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    Abstract

    Diffusion MRI (dMRI), while powerful for the characterization of tissue microstructure, suffers from long acquisition times. In this paper, we propose a super-resolution (SR) reconstruction method based on orthogonal slice-undersampling for accelerated dMRI acquisition. Instead of scanning full diffusion-weighted (DW) image volumes, only a subsample of equally-spaced slices need to be acquired. We show that complementary information from DW volumes corresponding to different diffusion wave-vectors can be harnessed using graph convolutional neural networks for reconstruction of the full DW volumes. We demonstrate that our SR reconstruction method outperforms typical interpolation methods and mitigates partial volume effects. Experimental results indicate that acceleration up to a factor of 5 can be achieved with minimal information loss.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationMedical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2019 - 22nd International Conference, Proceedings
    EditorsDinggang Shen, Pew-Thian Yap, Tianming Liu, Terry M. Peters, Ali Khan, Lawrence H. Staib, Caroline Essert, Sean Zhou
    PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
    Pages529-537
    Number of pages9
    ISBN (Print)9783030322472
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2019
    Event22nd International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2019 - Shenzhen, China
    Duration: 2019 Oct 132019 Oct 17

    Publication series

    NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
    Volume11766 LNCS
    ISSN (Print)0302-9743
    ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

    Conference

    Conference22nd International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2019
    Country/TerritoryChina
    CityShenzhen
    Period19/10/1319/10/17

    Bibliographical note

    Publisher Copyright:
    © 2019, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

    Keywords

    • Accelerated acquisition
    • Adversarial learning
    • Diffusion MRI
    • Graph CNN
    • Super resolution

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Theoretical Computer Science
    • General Computer Science

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