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Simultaneous use of Individual and Joint Regularization Terms in Compressive Sensing: Joint Reconstruction of Multi-Channel Multi-Contrast MRI Acquisitions
Purpose: A time-efficient strategy to acquire high-quality multi-contrast
images is to reconstruct undersampled data with joint regularization terms that
leverage common information across contrasts. However, these terms can cause
leakage of uncommon features among contrasts, compromising diagnostic utility.
The goal of this study is to develop a compressive sensing method for
multi-channel multi-contrast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) that optimally
utilizes shared information while preventing feature leakage.
Theory: Joint regularization terms group sparsity and colour total variation
are used to exploit common features across images while individual sparsity and
total variation are also used to prevent leakage of distinct features across
contrasts. The multi-channel multi-contrast reconstruction problem is solved
via a fast algorithm based on Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers.
Methods: The proposed method is compared against using only individual and
only joint regularization terms in reconstruction. Comparisons were performed
on single-channel simulated and multi-channel in-vivo datasets in terms of
reconstruction quality and neuroradiologist reader scores.
Results: The proposed method demonstrates rapid convergence and improved
image quality for both simulated and in-vivo datasets. Furthermore, while
reconstructions that solely use joint regularization terms are prone to
leakage-of-features, the proposed method reliably avoids leakage via
simultaneous use of joint and individual terms.
Conclusion: The proposed compressive sensing method performs fast
reconstruction of multi-channel multi-contrast MRI data with improved image
quality. It offers reliability against feature leakage in joint
reconstructions, thereby holding great promise for clinical use.Comment: 13 pages, 13 figures. Submitted for possible publicatio
A Theoretically Guaranteed Deep Optimization Framework for Robust Compressive Sensing MRI
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is one of the most dynamic and safe imaging
techniques available for clinical applications. However, the rather slow speed
of MRI acquisitions limits the patient throughput and potential indi cations.
Compressive Sensing (CS) has proven to be an efficient technique for
accelerating MRI acquisition. The most widely used CS-MRI model, founded on the
premise of reconstructing an image from an incompletely filled k-space, leads
to an ill-posed inverse problem. In the past years, lots of efforts have been
made to efficiently optimize the CS-MRI model. Inspired by deep learning
techniques, some preliminary works have tried to incorporate deep architectures
into CS-MRI process. Unfortunately, the convergence issues (due to the
experience-based networks) and the robustness (i.e., lack real-world noise
modeling) of these deeply trained optimization methods are still missing. In
this work, we develop a new paradigm to integrate designed numerical solvers
and the data-driven architectures for CS-MRI. By introducing an optimal
condition checking mechanism, we can successfully prove the convergence of our
established deep CS-MRI optimization scheme. Furthermore, we explicitly
formulate the Rician noise distributions within our framework and obtain an
extended CS-MRI network to handle the real-world nosies in the MRI process.
Extensive experimental results verify that the proposed paradigm outperforms
the existing state-of-the-art techniques both in reconstruction accuracy and
efficiency as well as robustness to noises in real scene
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