Attention-Based MultiOffset Deep Learning Reconstruction of Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer (AMO-CEST) MRI
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Original language | English |
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Journal / Publication | IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics |
Publication status | Online published - 22 May 2024 |
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Abstract
One challenge of chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is the long scan time due to multiple acquisitions of images at different saturation frequency offsets. k-space under-sampling strategy is commonly used to accelerate MRI acquisition, while this could introduce artifacts and reduce signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). To accelerate CEST-MRI acquisition while maintaining suitable image quality, we proposed an attention-based multioffset deep learning reconstruction network (AMO-CEST) with a multiple radial k-space sampling strategy for CEST-MRI. The AMO-CEST also contains dilated convolution to enlarge the receptive field and data consistency module to preserve the sampled k-space data. We evaluated the proposed method on a mouse brain dataset containing 5760 CEST images acquired at a pre-clinical 3T MRI scanner. Quantitative results demonstrated that AMO-CEST showed obvious improvement over zero-filling method with a PSNR enhancement of 11 dB, a SSIM enhancement of 0.15, and a NMSE decrease of 4.37×10−2 in three acquisition orientations. Compared with other deep learning-based models, AMO-CEST showed visual and quantitative improvements in images from three different orientations. We also extracted molecular contrast maps, including the amide proton transfer (APT) and the relayed nuclear Overhauser enhancement (rNOE). The results demonstrated that the CEST contrast maps derived from the CEST images of AMO-CEST were comparable to those derived from the original high-resolution CEST images. The proposed AMO-CEST can efficiently reconstruct high-quality CEST images from under-sampled k-space data and thus has the potential to accelerate CEST-MRI acquisition. © 2024 IEEE
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- Atrous Spatial Pyramid Pooling, Channel-Wise Attention, Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer, Chemicals, Convolution, Data Consistency, Deep learning, Image reconstruction, Magnetic resonance imaging, MRI Reconstruction, Protons, Vectors
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Attention-Based MultiOffset Deep Learning Reconstruction of Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer (AMO-CEST) MRI. / Yang, Zhikai; Shen, Dinggang; Chan, Kannie W. Y. et al.
In: IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 22.05.2024.
In: IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 22.05.2024.
Research output: Journal Publications and Reviews › RGC 21 - Publication in refereed journal › peer-review