用欠采样k空间数据直接超分辨低场MRI,提速且保质。
Low-Field Magnetic Resonance Image Enhancement using Undersampled k-Space
- 在k空间直接建模,联合完成重建与超分辨率。
- 欠采样下图像质量接近全采样,扫描时间大幅缩短。
- 适合资源有限地区,兼顾效率与诊断可用性。
低场磁共振成像(MRI)为资源有限地区提供了低成本的医学影像选择,但其广泛应用受限于扫描时间长和图像质量差。通过k空间欠采样可加速采集,传统方法则依赖空间域后处理提升图像质量。本文提出一种基于U-Net变体的深度学习框架,直接在k空间操作,利用欠采样数据实现低场MRI的超分辨率重建,并量化了采样率对成像质量的影响。与传统先重建后超分的方法不同,本模型将两者统一,充分利用k空间信息,显著提升图像保真度。在合成及真实低场脑部MRI数据集上的实验表明,k空间驱动的超分辨率优于传统空间域方法;且欠采样重建结果与全采样相当,实现了显著的扫描时间压缩,同时保持诊断可用性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Low-field magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) offers a cost-effective alternative for medical imaging in resource-limited settings. However, its widespread adoption is hindered by two key challenges: prolonged scan times and reduced image quality. Accelerated acquisition can be achieved using k-space undersampling, while image enhancement traditionally relies on spatial-domain postprocessing. In this work, we propose a novel deep learning framework based on a U-Net variant that operates directly in k-space to super-resolve low-field MR images directly using undersampled data while quantifying the impact of reduced k-space sampling. Unlike conventional approaches that treat image super-resolution as a postprocessing step following image reconstruction from undersampled k-space, our unified model integrates both processes, leveraging k-space information to achieve superior image fidelity. Extensive experiments on synthetic and real low-field brain MRI datasets demonstrate that k-space-driven image super-resolution outperforms conventional spatial-domain counterparts. Furthermore, our results show that undersampled k-space reconstructions achieve comparable quality to full k-space acquisitions, enabling substantial scan-time acceleration without compromising diagnostic utility.
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