Context-sensitive super-resolution for fast fetal magnetic resonance imaging
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Accepted version
Author(s)
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
3D Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is often a trade-off between fast but low-resolution image acquisition and highly detailed but slow image acquisition. Fast imaging is required for targets that move to avoid motion artefacts. This is in particular difficult for fetal MRI. Spatially independent upsampling techniques, which are the state-of-the-art to address this problem, are error prone and disregard contextual information. In this paper we propose a context-sensitive upsampling method based on a residual convolutional neural network model that learns organ specific appearance and adopts semantically to input data allowing for the generation of high resolution images with sharp edges and fine scale detail. By making contextual decisions about appearance and shape, present in different parts of an image, we gain a maximum of structural detail at a similar contrast as provided by high-resolution data. We experiment on 145 fetal scans and show that our approach yields an increased PSNR of 1.25 dB when applied to under-sampled fetal data cf. baseline upsampling. Furthermore, our method yields an increased PSNR of 1.73 dB when utilizing under-sampled fetal data to perform brain volume reconstruction on motion corrupted captured data.
Date Issued
2017-09-09
Date Acceptance
2017-09-01
Citation
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2017, 10555
ISBN
978-3-319-67563-3
ISSN
0302-9743
Publisher
Springer Verlag
Journal / Book Title
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume
10555
Copyright Statement
© Springer International Publishing AG 2017. The final publication is available at Springer via https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-67564-0_12
Sponsor
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)
Wellcome Trust/EPSRC
Wellcome Trust
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (E
Identifier
https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.08891
Grant Number
EP/N024494/1
EP/N024494/1
NS/A000025/1
RTJ5557761
RTJ5557761-1
Source
Fifth International Workshop, CMMI 2017, Second International Workshop, RAMBO 2017, and First International Workshop, SWITCH 2017
Subjects
cs.CV
08 Information And Computing Sciences
Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing
Publication Status
Published
Start Date
2017-09-14
Coverage Spatial
Québec City, QC, Canada