Abstract #4784

Deep Learning for Automated Medical Image Quality Assessment: Proof of Concept in Whole-Heart Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Robin Demesmaeker^1,2, John Heerfordt^1,3, Tobias Kober^1,3,4, Jérôme Yerly^3,5, Pier Giorgio Masci⁶, Dimitri Van De Ville^2,7, Matthias Stuber^3,5, and Davide Piccini^1,3,4

¹Advanced Clinical Imaging Technology, Siemens Healthcare AG, Lausanne, Switzerland, ²Institute of Bioengineering/Center for Neuroprosthetics, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, ³Department of Radiology, University Hospital (CHUV) and University of Lausanne (UNIL), Lausanne, Switzerland, ⁴LTS5, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, ⁵Center for Biomedical Imaging (CIBM), Lausanne, Switzerland, ⁶Division of Cardiology and Cardiac MR Center, University Hospital of Lausanne (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland, ⁷Department of Radiology and Medical Informatics, University Hospital of Geneva (HUG), Geneva, Switzerland

We aim at developing a fully automated algorithm which quantitatively gauges the quality of medical images using deep learning to mimic human perception. An automated image quality assessment algorithm based on a deep convolutional neural regression network is designed, optimized, trained, validated and tested on a clinical database of 3D whole-heart cardiac MRI scans. The algorithm was successfully trained and validated, yielding a regression performance in the range of the intra- and inter-observer agreement. These results show the relevance of deep learning concepts to image quality analysis, in particular to volumetric cardiac MR imaging.

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