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Undersampled brain magnetic resonance image reconstruction method based on convolutional neural network
DU Nianmao, XU Jiachen, XIAO Zhiyong
Journal of Computer Applications
2020, 40 (10):
3060-3065.
DOI: 10.11772/j.issn.1001-9081.2020030344
Aiming at the problem that current deep learning based undersampled Magnetic Resonance (MR) image reconstruction methods mainly focus on the single slice reconstruction and ignore the data redundancy between adjacent slices, a Hybrid Cascaded Convolutional Neural Network (HC-CNN) was proposed for undersampled multi-slice brain MR image reconstruction. First, the traditional reconstruction method was extended to a deep learning based reconstruction model, and the traditional iterative reconstruction framework was replaced by a cascaded convolutional neural network. Then, in each iterative reconstruction, a 3D convolution module and a 2D convolution module were used to learn the data redundancy between adjacent slices and inside a single slice, respectively. Finally, Data Consistency (DC) module was used in each iteration to maintain the data fidelity of the reconstructed image in
k-space. The simulation results on a single-coil brain MR image dataset show that compared with the reconstruction methods based on single slice reconstruction, the proposed method has the Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio (PSNR) value at 4×acceleration factor increased by 1.75 dB averagely and the PSNR value at 6×acceleration factor increased by 2.57 dB averagely. At the same time, the image reconstruction time for a single slice by the proposed method is 15.4 ms. Experimental results show that the proposed method can not only effectively utilize the data redundancy between slices and reconstruct higher-quality images, but also has a higher real-time performance.
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