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Abstract #1767

Weak supervision in multi-coil accelerated MR image reconstruction

Arda Atalik1, Sumit Chopra2,3, and Daniel K Sodickson3,4
1Center for Data Science, New York University, New York, NY, United States, 2Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, New York, NY, United States, 3Bernard and Irene Schwartz Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States, 4Center for Advanced Imaging Innovation and Research (CAI2R), Department of Radiology, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States

Synopsis

Keywords: AI/ML Image Reconstruction, Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence

Motivation: In training-data-limited settings, weak supervision –cooperatively utilizing under-sampled and fully-sampled datasets– can be advantageous.

Goal(s): To compare weakly-supervised multi-coil Magnetic Resonance (MR) image reconstruction against reconstruction using only under-sampled or fully-sampled datasets in high- and low-data regimes.

Approach: Pretrain a Variational Network (VarNet) in a self-supervised manner by minimizing L1 loss in k-space using a 4x under-sampled dataset. Transfer the pre-trained weights to another VarNet and fine-tune it using a smaller, fully sampled dataset by optimizing MS-SSIM loss in image space.

Results: We demonstrate improvements in reconstruction quality in the high-data regime as well as enhanced robustness of reconstruction in the low-data regime.

Impact: Multi-coil MR image reconstruction exploiting both under-sampled and fully-sampled datasets is achievable with transfer learning and fine-tuning. Our proposed methodology can provide improved reconstruction quality and robustness.

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