SARA-GAN: self-attention and relative average discriminator based generative adversarial networks for fast compressed sensing MRI reconstruction
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Abstract
Research on undersampled magnetic resonance image (MRI) reconstruction can increase the speed of MRI imaging and reduce patient suffering. In this paper, an undersampled MRI reconstruction method based on Generative Adversarial Networks with the Self-Attention mechanism and the Relative Average discriminator (SARA-GAN) is proposed. In our SARA-GAN, the relative average discriminator theory is applied to make full use of the prior knowledge, in which half of the input data of the discriminator is true and half is fake. At the same time, a self-attention mechanism is incorporated into the high-layer of the generator to build long-range dependence of the image, which can overcome the problem of limited convolution kernel size. Besides, spectral normalization is employed to stabilize the training process. Compared with three widely used GAN-based MRI reconstruction methods, i.e., DAGAN, DAWGAN, and DAWGAN-GP, the proposed method can obtain a higher peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) and structural similarity index measure(SSIM), and the details of the reconstructed image are more abundant and more realistic for further clinical scrutinization and diagnostic tasks.
Date Issued
2020-11-26
Date Acceptance
2020-11-05
Citation
Frontiers in Neuroinformatics, 2020, 14, pp.1-12
ISSN
1662-5196
Publisher
Frontiers Media
Start Page
1
End Page
12
Journal / Book Title
Frontiers in Neuroinformatics
Volume
14
Copyright Statement
© 2020 Yuan, Jiang, Wang, Wei, Li, Wang, Menpes-Smith, Niu and Yang. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fninf.2020.611666/full
Subjects
1109 Neurosciences
1702 Cognitive Sciences
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
611666
Date Publish Online
2020-11-26