用神经网络校准两种脑部T1 mapping方法,提升定量精度。
Comparison and calibration of MP2RAGE quantitative T1 values to multi-TI inversion recovery T1 values
- 用基于ResNet-18的图像块网络校准MP2RAGE与多TI反转恢复的T1值差异。
- 校准后白质误差从0.30秒降至0.11秒,灰质误差显著降低。
- 仅需少量配对数据即可实现跨序列精准校准,适合临床影像标准化。
尽管常规T1加权MRI受扫描仪和协议差异影响,定量T1映射旨在测量不受这些因素干扰的T1值。大脑T1变化反映组织结构改变。磁化准备双快速梯度回波(MP2RAGE)相比多时间反转恢复(multi-TI IR)协议,能以更短扫描时间实现高效T1映射。本研究对四名受试者采集并配准了经B1校正的MP2RAGE及附加反转时间的MP3RAGE数据,同时获取多TI选择性反转恢复数据。采用最大后验(MAP)方法估计T1值,发现MAP MP2RAGE无偏倚,但MAP MP3RAGE对B1不均敏感。我们发现MAP MP2RAGE与多TI IR T1值间存在组织依赖性偏差。为校正该偏差,训练了一个基于图像块的ResNet-18网络,将MP2RAGE T1值校准至多TI IR基准。在四折交叉验证中,网络显著降低均方根误差:白质(0.30±0.01秒→0.11±0.02秒),皮层灰质(0.36±0.02秒→0.17±0.03秒),深部灰质(0.26±0.02秒→0.10±0.02秒)。仅需有限配对数据,即可通过神经网络实现不同定量成像方法间的误差降低与协议校准。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
While typical qualitative T1-weighted magnetic resonance images reflect scanner and protocol differences, quantitative T1 mapping aims to measure T1 independent of these effects. Changes in T1 in the brain reflect structural changes in brain tissue. Magnetization-prepared two rapid acquisition gradient echo (MP2RAGE) is an acquisition protocol that allows for efficient T1 mapping with a much lower scan time per slab compared to multi-TI inversion recovery (IR) protocols. We collect and register B1-corrected MP2RAGE acquisitions with an additional inversion time (MP3RAGE) alongside multi-TI selective inversion recovery acquisitions for four subjects. We use a maximum a posteriori (MAP) T1 estimation method for both MP2RAGE and compare to typical point estimate MP2RAGE T1 mapping, finding no bias from MAP MP2RAGE but a sensitivity to B1 inhomogeneities with MAP MP3RAGE. We demonstrate a tissue-dependent bias between MAP MP2RAGE T1 estimates and the multi-TI inversion recovery T1 values. To correct this bias, we train a patch-based ResNet-18 to calibrate the MAP MP2RAGE T1 estimates to the multi-TI IR T1 values. Across four folds, our network reduces the RMSE significantly (white matter: from 0.30 +/- 0.01 seconds to 0.11 +/- 0.02 seconds, subcortical gray matter: from 0.26 +/- 0.02 seconds to 0.10 +/- 0.02 seconds, cortical gray matter: from 0.36 +/- 0.02 seconds to 0.17 +/- 0.03 seconds). Using limited paired training data from both sequences, we can reduce the error between quantitative imaging methods and calibrate to one of the protocols with a neural network.
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