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Abstract #1020

MRF-SEG: Accelerated Brain MRI Acquisition and Segmentation

Ashwin Kumar1, Zihan Zhou1, Quan Chen1, Xiaozhi Cao1, Benjamin Billot2, Bruce Fischl2, Akshay Chaudhari1, and Kawin Setsompop1
1Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, 2Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States

Synopsis

Keywords: Segmentation, Segmentation

Motivation: Despite the availability of rapid high-resolution MRF sequences that can be used to synthesize MPRAGE, acquiring MPRAGE scans remains necessary for accurate downstream segmentation.

Goal(s): The aim is to perform accurate-segmentation directly on MRF time-resolved data, eliminating the need for a lengthy MPRAGE scan, resulting in significant time savings, and providing quantitative tissue parameter maps.

Approach: We used deep learning to directly segment MRF time-resolved data and generate multi-tissue brain segmentation maps.

Results: Our findings indicate that deep learning segmentation methods trained directly on MRF data, both quantitatively and qualitatively perform better than segmentation on synthesized MPRAGE.

Impact: Applying deep learning directly on MRF data improves MRF segmentation compared to synthesizing MPRAGE and performing segmentation on it. This strengthens the validation of MRF and enhances its clinical potential by rapidly acquiring and segmenting brain images.

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