Population imaging studies rely upon good quality medical imagery before
downstream image quantification. This study provides an automated approach to
assess image quality from cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging at
scale. We identify four common CMR imaging artefacts, including respiratory
motion, cardiac motion, Gibbs ringing, and aliasing. The model can deal with
images acquired in different views, including two, three, and four-chamber
long-axis and short-axis cine CMR images. Two deep learning-based models in
spatial and frequency domains are proposed. Besides recognising these
artefacts, the proposed models are suitable to the common challenges of not
having access to data labels. An unsupervised domain adaptation method and a
Fourier-based convolutional neural network are proposed to overcome these
challenges. We show that the proposed models reliably allow for CMR image
quality assessment. The accuracies obtained for the spatial model in supervised
and weakly supervised learning are 99.41+0.24 and 96.37+0.66 for the UK Biobank
dataset, respectively. Using unsupervised domain adaptation can somewhat
overcome the challenge of not having access to the data labels. The maximum
achieved domain gap coverage in unsupervised domain adaptation is 16.86%.
Domain adaptation can significantly improve a 5-class classification task and
deal with considerable domain shift without data labels. Increasing the speed
of training and testing can be achieved with the proposed model in the
frequency domain. The frequency-domain model can achieve the same accuracy yet
1.548 times faster than the spatial model. This model can also be used directly
on k-space data, and there is no need for image reconstruction.Comment: 21 pages, 9 figures, 7 table
