arXiv:2505.00643eess.IVcs.AI2025-05被引 3

用深度学习去除心脏外组织伪影,实现高加速实时动态MRI

Deep Learning Assisted Outer Volume Removal for Highly-Accelerated Real-Time Dynamic MRI

  • 通过时序交织采样生成伪周期伪影,用DL模型识别并移除非心区信号
  • 在4倍以上加速下图像质量接近临床标准,显著优于传统方法
  • 无需修改扫描流程,适合无法屏气患者的心脏功能评估

实时动态MRI对捕捉快速生理过程至关重要,尤其在心脏功能评估中需高时间分辨率。传统屏气、心电门控扫描难以实施于部分患者,而实时电影MRI可实现自由呼吸、无门控成像。但高加速下因心外组织导致的混叠伪影严重影响图像质量。本文提出一种新型外体积去除(OVR)方法,在后处理中利用时序交织采样产生的伪周期伪影,通过深度学习模型估计并移除心外区域信号,再从k空间数据中减去该估计值。最终采用基于物理引导的深度学习(PD-DL)方法,结合专为OVR设计的损失函数重建高质量图像。实验表明,在高加速(>4倍)条件下,该方法生成图像视觉效果与临床基准相当,且在定性和定量上均优于传统重建技术。本方法无需修改采集流程,为实现更高加速率下的诊断级图像质量提供了实用方案。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Real-time (RT) dynamic MRI plays a vital role in capturing rapid physiological processes, offering unique insights into organ motion and function. Among these applications, RT cine MRI is particularly important for functional assessment of the heart with high temporal resolution. RT imaging enables free-breathing, ungated imaging of cardiac motion, making it a crucial alternative for patients who cannot tolerate conventional breath-hold, ECG-gated acquisitions. However, achieving high acceleration rates in RT cine MRI is challenging due to aliasing artifacts from extra-cardiac tissues, particularly at high undersampling factors. In this study, we propose a novel outer volume removal (OVR) method to address this challenge by eliminating aliasing contributions from non-cardiac regions in a post-processing framework. Our approach estimates the outer volume signal for each timeframe using composite temporal images from time-interleaved undersampling patterns, which inherently contain pseudo-periodic ghosting artifacts. A deep learning (DL) model is trained to identify and remove these artifacts, producing a clean outer volume estimate that is subsequently subtracted from the corresponding k-space data. The final reconstruction is performed with a physics-driven DL (PD-DL) method trained using an OVR-specific loss function to restore high spatio-temporal resolution images. Experimental results show that the proposed method at high accelerations achieves image quality that is visually comparable to clinical baseline images, while outperforming conventional reconstruction techniques, both qualitatively and quantitatively. The proposed approach provides a practical and effective solution for artifact reduction in RT cine MRI without requiring acquisition modifications, offering a pathway to higher acceleration rates while preserving diagnostic quality.

动态MRI深度学习加速成像心脏成像

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