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Abstract #2907

Rapid Bayesian inference for perfusion quantification using ASL-MRI with a VAE-based neural network structure

Yechuan Zhang1, Michael Chappell2,3,4,5,6, and Jian-Qing Zheng1
1University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, 2Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, 3Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, FMRIB, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neuroscience, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, 4Mental Health and Clinical Neuroscience, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom, 5Sir Peter Mansfield Imaging Centre, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom, 6Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre, Queen’s Medical Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Synopsis

Keywords: Data Analysis, Arterial spin labellingA Variational Autoencoder (VAE) based framework was created to solve perfusion parameter estimation problem for ASL non-linear forward models. The ultimate goal was to build up an efficient and uncertainty-aware framework for parameter estimation problem in medical imaging, using the concept from Variaitonal Bayes (VB) which was already applied to ASL. Evaluation was performed using simulation and real data experiments with a bi-exponential model and two ASL-MRI forward models with different complexity. Compared with Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) and analytical VB (aVB), our VAE-based model achieved comparable accuracy, and hundredfold improvement in computational time.

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