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Abstract #0017

Low-Latency Reconstruction of Real-Time Cine MRI Using an Unrolled Network

Marc Vornehm1,2, Jens Wetzl2, Florian Fürnrohr1, Daniel Giese2,3, Rizwan Ahmad4, and Florian Knoll1
1Computational Imaging Lab, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany, 2Magnetic Resonance, Siemens Healthcare GmbH, Erlangen, Germany, 3Institute of Radiology, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany, 4Biomedical Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States

Synopsis

Keywords: Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence, Image Reconstruction

Motivation: Interactive real-time MRI requires low reconstruction latencies. Deep learning-based methods are promising, but unrolled networks like the Variational Network have longer inference times than purely image-based methods.

Goal(s): Design and train a Variational Network with high reconstruction quality and inference times suitable for interactive real-time applications.

Approach: Modify the Variational Network architecture such that few unrolling steps are sufficient for high reconstruction quality with short inference times.

Results: The proposed architectural modifications allowed to halve the number of unrolling steps without compromising image quality, therefore enabling considerably shortened reconstruction times.

Impact: Two modifications to an unrolled Variational Network architecture for MRI reconstruction are proposed. These enable reconstructing interactive real-time cardiac cine MRI with high reconstruction quality while maintaining minimal reconstruction latency.

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