Correcting Susceptibility Artifacts of MRI Sensors in Brain Scanning: A 3D Anatomy-Guided Deep Learning Approach

<div><p>Echo planar imaging (EPI), a fast magnetic resonance imaging technique, is a powerful tool in functional neuroimaging studies. However, susceptibility artifacts, which cause misinterpretations of brain functions, are unavoidable distortions in EPI. This paper proposes an end-to-e...

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Main Author: Soan T. M. Duong (18460599) (author)
Other Authors: Son Lam Phung (18460602) (author), Abdesselam Bouzerdoum (17900021) (author), Sui Paul Ang (18460605) (author), Mark M. Schira (7817429) (author)
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description <div><p>Echo planar imaging (EPI), a fast magnetic resonance imaging technique, is a powerful tool in functional neuroimaging studies. However, susceptibility artifacts, which cause misinterpretations of brain functions, are unavoidable distortions in EPI. This paper proposes an end-to-end deep learning framework, named TS-Net, for susceptibility artifact correction (SAC) in a pair of 3D EPI images with reversed phase-encoding directions. The proposed TS-Net comprises a deep convolutional network to predict a displacement field in three dimensions to overcome the limitation of existing methods, which only estimate the displacement field along the dominant-distortion direction. In the training phase, anatomical T1-weighted images are leveraged to regularize the correction, but they are not required during the inference phase to make TS-Net more flexible for general use. The experimental results show that TS-Net achieves favorable accuracy and speed trade-off when compared with the state-of-the-art SAC methods, i.e., TOPUP, TISAC, and S-Net. The fast inference speed (less than a second) of TS-Net makes real-time SAC during EPI image acquisition feasible and accelerates the medical image-processing pipelines.</p><p> </p></div><h2>Other Information</h2> <p> Published in: Sensors<br> License: <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" target="_blank">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</a><br>See article on publisher's website: <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21072314" target="_blank">https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21072314</a></p>
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spelling Correcting Susceptibility Artifacts of MRI Sensors in Brain Scanning: A 3D Anatomy-Guided Deep Learning ApproachSoan T. M. Duong (18460599)Son Lam Phung (18460602)Abdesselam Bouzerdoum (17900021)Sui Paul Ang (18460605)Mark M. Schira (7817429)Biomedical and clinical sciencesNeurosciencesInformation and computing sciencesMachine learningsusceptibility artifactsdeep learninghigh-speedecho planar imagingreversed phase-encoding<div><p>Echo planar imaging (EPI), a fast magnetic resonance imaging technique, is a powerful tool in functional neuroimaging studies. However, susceptibility artifacts, which cause misinterpretations of brain functions, are unavoidable distortions in EPI. This paper proposes an end-to-end deep learning framework, named TS-Net, for susceptibility artifact correction (SAC) in a pair of 3D EPI images with reversed phase-encoding directions. The proposed TS-Net comprises a deep convolutional network to predict a displacement field in three dimensions to overcome the limitation of existing methods, which only estimate the displacement field along the dominant-distortion direction. In the training phase, anatomical T1-weighted images are leveraged to regularize the correction, but they are not required during the inference phase to make TS-Net more flexible for general use. The experimental results show that TS-Net achieves favorable accuracy and speed trade-off when compared with the state-of-the-art SAC methods, i.e., TOPUP, TISAC, and S-Net. The fast inference speed (less than a second) of TS-Net makes real-time SAC during EPI image acquisition feasible and accelerates the medical image-processing pipelines.</p><p> </p></div><h2>Other Information</h2> <p> Published in: Sensors<br> License: <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" target="_blank">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</a><br>See article on publisher's website: <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21072314" target="_blank">https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21072314</a></p>2021-03-26T03:00:00ZTextJournal contributioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersiontextcontribution to journal10.3390/s21072314https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Correcting_Susceptibility_Artifacts_of_MRI_Sensors_in_Brain_Scanning_A_3D_Anatomy-Guided_Deep_Learning_Approach/25713783CC BY 4.0info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:figshare.com:article/257137832021-03-26T03:00:00Z
spellingShingle Correcting Susceptibility Artifacts of MRI Sensors in Brain Scanning: A 3D Anatomy-Guided Deep Learning Approach
Soan T. M. Duong (18460599)
Biomedical and clinical sciences
Neurosciences
Information and computing sciences
Machine learning
susceptibility artifacts
deep learning
high-speed
echo planar imaging
reversed phase-encoding
status_str publishedVersion
title Correcting Susceptibility Artifacts of MRI Sensors in Brain Scanning: A 3D Anatomy-Guided Deep Learning Approach
title_full Correcting Susceptibility Artifacts of MRI Sensors in Brain Scanning: A 3D Anatomy-Guided Deep Learning Approach
title_fullStr Correcting Susceptibility Artifacts of MRI Sensors in Brain Scanning: A 3D Anatomy-Guided Deep Learning Approach
title_full_unstemmed Correcting Susceptibility Artifacts of MRI Sensors in Brain Scanning: A 3D Anatomy-Guided Deep Learning Approach
title_short Correcting Susceptibility Artifacts of MRI Sensors in Brain Scanning: A 3D Anatomy-Guided Deep Learning Approach
title_sort Correcting Susceptibility Artifacts of MRI Sensors in Brain Scanning: A 3D Anatomy-Guided Deep Learning Approach
topic Biomedical and clinical sciences
Neurosciences
Information and computing sciences
Machine learning
susceptibility artifacts
deep learning
high-speed
echo planar imaging
reversed phase-encoding