DAGAN: deep de-aliasing generative adversarial networks for fast compressed sensing MRI reconstruction
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Journal Article
Abstract
Compressed Sensing Magnetic Resonance Imaging (CS-MRI) enables fast acquisition, which is highly desirable for numerous clinical applications. This can not only reduce the scanning cost and ease patient burden, but also potentially reduce motion artefacts and the effect of contrast washout, thus yielding better image quality. Different from parallel imaging based fast MRI, which utilises multiple coils to simultaneously receive MR signals, CS-MRI breaks the Nyquist-Shannon sampling barrier to reconstruct MRI images with much less required raw data. This paper provides a deep learning based strategy for reconstruction of CS-MRI, and bridges a substantial gap between conventional non-learning methods working only on data from a single image, and prior knowledge from large training datasets. In particular, a novel conditional Generative Adversarial Networks-based model (DAGAN) is proposed to reconstruct CS-MRI. In our DAGAN architecture, we have designed a refinement learning method to stabilise our U-Net based generator, which provides an endto-end network to reduce aliasing artefacts. To better preserve texture and edges in the reconstruction, we have coupled the adversarial loss with an innovative content loss. In addition, we incorporate frequency domain information to enforce similarity in both the image and frequency domains. We have performed comprehensive comparison studies with both conventional CSMRI reconstruction methods and newly investigated deep learning approaches. Compared to these methods, our DAGAN method provides superior reconstruction with preserved perceptual image details. Furthermore, each image is reconstructed in about 5 ms, which is suitable for real-time processing.
Date Issued
2018-06-01
Date Acceptance
2017-12-18
Citation
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 2018, 37 (6), pp.1310-1321
ISSN
0278-0062
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Start Page
1310
End Page
1321
Journal / Book Title
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
Volume
37
Issue
6
Copyright Statement
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Sponsor
British Heart Foundation
Grant Number
PG/16/78/32402
Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Engineering, Biomedical
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Imaging Science & Photographic Technology
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
Computer Science
Engineering
Compressed sensing
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
fast MRI
deep learning
generative adversarial networks (GAN)
de-aliasing
inverse problems
IMAGE-RECONSTRUCTION
TIME
ALGORITHMS
SPARSITY
Algorithms
Data Compression
Deep Learning
Humans
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Humans
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Algorithms
Data Compression
Deep Learning
Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
08 Information and Computing Sciences
09 Engineering
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2017-12-21