Deep Residual Network for Off-Resonance Artifact Correction with Application to Pediatric Body Magnetic Resonance Angiography with 3D Cones

09/28/2018
by   David Y Zeng, et al.
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Purpose: Off-resonance artifact correction by deep-learning, to facilitate rapid pediatric body imaging with a scan time efficient 3D cones trajectory. Methods: A residual convolutional neural network to correct off-resonance artifacts (Off-ResNet) was trained with a prospective study of 30 pediatric magnetic resonance angiography exams. Each exam acquired a short-readout scan (1.18 ms +- 0.38) and a long-readout scan (3.35 ms +- 0.74) at 3T. Short-readout scans, with longer scan times but negligible off-resonance blurring, were used as reference images and augmented with additional off-resonance for supervised training examples. Long-readout scans, with greater off-resonance artifacts but shorter scan time, were corrected by autofocus and Off-ResNet and compared to short-readout scans by normalized root-mean-square error (NRMSE), structural similarity index (SSIM), and peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR). Scans were also compared by scoring on eight anatomical features by two radiologists, using analysis of variance with post-hoc Tukey's test. Reader agreement was determined with intraclass correlation. Results: Long-readout scans were on average 59.3 short-readout scans. Images from Off-ResNet had superior NRMSE, SSIM, and PSNR compared to uncorrected images across +-1kHz off-resonance (P<0.01). The proposed method had superior NRMSE over -677Hz to +1kHz and superior SSIM and PSNR over +-1kHz compared to autofocus (P<0.01). Radiologic scoring demonstrated that long-readout scans corrected with Off-ResNet were non-inferior to short-readout scans (P<0.01). Conclusion: The proposed method can correct off-resonance artifacts from rapid long-readout 3D cones scans to a non-inferior image quality compared to diagnostically standard short-readout scans.

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