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Variational Multi-Task MRI Reconstruction: Joint Reconstruction, Registration and Super-Resolution

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Authors

Aviles-Rivero, Angelica I 
Debroux, Noémie 
Guyader, Carole Le 
Schönlieb, Carola-Bibiane 

Abstract

Motion degradation is a central problem in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). This work addresses the problem of how to obtain higher quality, super-resolved motion-free, reconstructions from highly undersampled MRI data. In this work, we present for the first time a variational multi-task framework that allows joining three relevant tasks in MRI: reconstruction, registration and super-resolution. Our framework takes a set of multiple undersampled MR acquisitions corrupted by motion into a novel multi-task optimisation model, which is composed of an L2 fidelity term that allows sharing representation between tasks, super-resolution foundations and hyperelastic deformations to model biological tissue behaviors. We demonstrate that this combination yields to significant improvements over sequential models and other bi-task methods. Our results exhibit fine details and compensate for motion producing sharp and highly textured images compared to state of the art methods.

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eess.IV, eess.IV, cs.NA, math.NA

Journal Title

Medical Image Analysis

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Journal ISSN

1361-8415
1361-8423

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Publisher

Elsevier
Sponsorship
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/M00483X/1)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/N014588/1)
EPSRC (EP/S026045/1)
European Commission Horizon 2020 (H2020) Marie Sk?odowska-Curie actions (777826)