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End-to-End Deep Learning of Non-rigid Groupwise Registration and Reconstruction of Dynamic MRI.

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Authors

Yang, Junwei 
Küstner, Thomas 
Hu, Peng 
Liò, Pietro 
Qi, Haikun 

Abstract

Temporal correlation has been exploited for accelerated dynamic MRI reconstruction. Some methods have modeled inter-frame motion into the reconstruction process to produce temporally aligned image series and higher reconstruction quality. However, traditional motion-compensated approaches requiring iterative optimization of registration and reconstruction are time-consuming, while most deep learning-based methods neglect motion in the reconstruction process. We propose an unrolled deep learning framework with each iteration consisting of a groupwise diffeomorphic registration network (GRN) and a motion-augmented reconstruction network. Specifically, the whole dynamic sequence is registered at once to an implicit template which is used to generate a new set of dynamic images to efficiently exploit the full temporal information of the acquired data via the GRN. The generated dynamic sequence is then incorporated into the reconstruction network to augment the reconstruction performance. The registration and reconstruction networks are optimized in an end-to-end fashion for simultaneous motion estimation and reconstruction of dynamic images. The effectiveness of the proposed method is validated in highly accelerated cardiac cine MRI by comparing with other state-of-the-art approaches.

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Keywords

deep learning, dynamic MR imaging, multi-task learning, reconstruction, registration

Journal Title

Front Cardiovasc Med

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Journal ISSN

2297-055X
2297-055X

Volume Title

9

Publisher

Frontiers Media SA