TY - CHAP
T1 - Context-sensitive super-resolution for fast fetal magnetic resonance imaging
AU - McDonagh, Steven
AU - Hou, Benjamin
AU - Alansary, Amir
AU - Oktay, Ozan
AU - Kamnitsas, Konstantinos
AU - Rutherford, Mary
AU - Hajnal, Jo
AU - Kainz, Bernhard
PY - 2017/9/9
Y1 - 2017/9/9
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-67564-0_12
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-67564-0_12
M3 - Other chapter contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85029581532
SN - 9783319675633
VL - 10555 LNCS
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 116
EP - 126
BT - Molecular Imaging, Reconstruction and Analysis of Moving Body Organs, and Stroke Imaging and Treatment - 5th International Workshop, CMMI 2017 2nd International Workshop, RAMBO 2017 and 1st International Workshop, SWITCH 2017 Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2017, Proceedings
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 5th International Workshop on Computational Methods for Molecular Imaging, CMMI 2017, 2nd International Workshop on Reconstruction and Analysis of Moving Body Organs, RAMBO 2017 and 1st International Stroke Workshop on Imaging and Treatment Challenges, SWITCH 2017 held in Conjunction with 20th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2017
Y2 - 14 September 2017 through 14 September 2017
ER -