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Abstract #0339

Unsupervised q-Space Interpolation Using Physics-Constrained Coordinate-Based Implicit Network

Atakan Topcu1,2, Abdallah Zaid Alkilani1,2, Tolga Çukur1,2,3, and Emine Ulku Saritas1,2
1Electrical and Electronics Department, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, 2National Magnetic Resonance Center (UMRAM), Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, 3Neuroscience Graduate Program, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey

Synopsis

Keywords: AI/ML Image Reconstruction, Diffusion/other diffusion imaging techniques, implicit neural representation, q-space undersampling, spherical harmonics

Motivation: Most diffusion MRI techniques require extensive sampling of q-space to effectively resolve fiber structures at a fine detail. The scan times become impractically long, especially for clinical settings.

Goal(s): Our goal is to arbitrarily interpolate the q-space data to enable downsampling of q-space, while maintaining high fidelity diffusion metrics.

Approach: We propose QUCCI, a subject-specific unsupervised implicit network model that utilizes both implicit and physics-driven explicit regularization to encode diffusion MRI signals with angular continuity.

Results: QUCCI achieves superior q-space interpolation, outperforming traditional and deep learning methods.

Impact: QUCCI provides high-fidelity diffusion MRI metrics via improving the angular interpolation of diffusion MRI signals under highly undersampled q-space cases, which may especially be beneficial in the clinical settings where excessively long scan times are impractical.

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