High-resolution pelvic MRI reconstruction using a generative adversarial network with attention and cyclic loss
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Author(s)
Li, Guangyuan
Lv, Jun
Tong, Xiangrong
Wang, Chengyan
Yang, Guang
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an important medical imaging modality, but its acquisition speed is quite slow due to the physiological limitations. Recently, super-resolution methods have shown excellent performance in accelerating MRI. In some circumstances, it is difficult to obtain high-resolution images even with prolonged scan time. Therefore, we proposed a novel super-resolution method that uses a generative adversarial network with cyclic loss and attention mechanism to generate high-resolution MR images from low-resolution MR images by upsampling factors of 2× and 4× . We implemented our model on pelvic images from healthy subjects as training and validation data, while those data from patients were used for testing. The MR dataset was obtained using different imaging sequences, including T2, T2W SPAIR, and mDIXON-W. Four methods, i.e., BICUBIC, SRCNN, SRGAN, and EDSR were used for comparison. Structural similarity, peak signal to noise ratio, root mean square error, and variance inflation factor were used as calculation indicators to evaluate the performances of the proposed method. Various experimental results showed that our method can better restore the details of the high-resolution MR image as compared to the other methods. In addition, the reconstructed high-resolution MR image can provide better lesion textures in the tumor patients, which is promising to be used in clinical diagnosis.
Date Issued
2021-08-01
Date Acceptance
2021-07-19
Citation
IEEE Access, 2021, 9, pp.105951-105964
ISSN
2169-3536
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Start Page
105951
End Page
105964
Journal / Book Title
IEEE Access
Volume
9
Copyright Statement
© 2021 IEEE. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.For more information, see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Sponsor
European Research Council Horizon 2020
Grant Number
H2020-SC1-FA-DTS-2019-1 952172
Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Computer Science, Information Systems
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Telecommunications
Computer Science
Engineering
Super-resolution reconstruction
pelvic
generative adversarial network
cyclic loss
attention.
eess.IV
eess.IV
cs.CV
cs.LG
08 Information and Computing Sciences
09 Engineering
10 Technology
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2021-07-26