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Abstract #0653

Peer-to-Peer Generative Learning for Architecture-Agnostic Federated MRI Reconstruction

Valiyeh Ansarian Nezhad1,2, Gökberk Elmas1,2, and Tolga Çukur1,2,3
1Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, 2National Magnetic Resonance Research Center (UMRAM), Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, 3Neuroscience Program, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey

Synopsis

Keywords: AI/ML Image Reconstruction, Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence, Federated learning, multi-institutional, collaborative learning, image reconstruction

Motivation: Federated learning (FL) enables privacy-preserving training of deep reconstruction models across multiple sites to improve generalization at the expense of lower within-site performance. Yet, existing methods require a common model architecture across sites, limiting flexibility.

Goal(s): Our goal was to devise an architecture-agnostic method for collaborative training of heterogeneous models across sites.

Approach: We introduced a novel peer-to-peer generative learning method (PGL-FedMR), where individual sites share a generative prior for their MRI data with remaining sites, and prior-driven synthetic data are used to train reconstruction models at each site.

Results: PGL-FedMR improves across-site generalization over local models, and within-site performance over conventional FL.

Impact: Improvements in within-site and across-site performance for MRI reconstruction through PGL-FedMR, coupled with the ability to handle heterogeneous architectures, may facilitate privacy-preserving multi-institutional collaborations to build reliable reconstruction models for many applications where data are scarce including rare diseases.

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