Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MEDICAL IMAGING
Volume 41, Issue 8, Pages 2033-2047Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2022.3153849
Keywords
Image reconstruction; Magnetic resonance imaging; Optimization; Data models; High frequency; Brain modeling; Training; MRI reconstruction; deep learning; convolutional RNN; pyramid; multi-scale learning
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In this paper, a novel deep learning based method called Pyramid Convolutional RNN (PC-RNN) is introduced for MRI image reconstruction from multiple scales. The proposed method utilizes Convolutional RNN modules to iteratively learn features at different scales and combines reconstructed images in a pyramid fashion. Experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms other methods and is able to recover more details.
Fast and accurate MRI image reconstruction from undersampled data is crucial in clinical practice. Deep learning based reconstruction methods have shown promising advances in recent years. However, recovering fine details from undersampled data is still challenging. In this paper, we introduce a novel deep learning based method, Pyramid Convolutional RNN (PC-RNN), to reconstruct images from multiple scales. Based on the formulation of MRI reconstruction as an inverse problem, we design the PC-RNN model with three convolutional RNN (ConvRNN) modules to iteratively learn the features in multiple scales. Each ConvRNN module reconstructs images at different scales and the reconstructed images are combined by a final CNN module in a pyramid fashion. The multi-scale ConvRNN modules learn a coarse-to-fine image reconstruction. Unlike other common reconstruction methods for parallel imaging, PC-RNN does not employ coil sensitive maps for multi-coil data and directly model the multiple coils as multi-channel inputs. The coil compression technique is applied to standardize data with various coil numbers, leading to more efficient training. We evaluate our model on the fastMRI knee and brain datasets and the results show that the proposed model outperforms other methods and can recover more details. The proposed method is one of the winner solutions in the 2019 fastMRI competition.
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