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Abstract #1978

4D Flow MRI Velocity Enhancement and Anti-Aliasing Using Divergence Free Potential in Neural Networks

Javier Bisbal1,2,3, Julio Sotelo4, Hernan Mella5, Joaquín Mura6, Cristián Tejos1,2,3, Cristóbal Arrieta2,7, and Sergio Uribe1,2,8
1Biomedical Imaging Center, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, 2Millennium Institute for Intelligent Healthcare Engineering, iHEALTH, Santiago, Chile, 3Department of Electrical Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, 4Departamento de Informática, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa Maria, Santiago, Chile, 5School of Electrical Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile, 64Department of Mechanical Engineering, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa Maria, Santiago, Chile, 7Faculty of Engineering, Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Santiago, Chile, 8Department of Medical Imaging and Radiation Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Synopsis

Keywords: Analysis/Processing, Velocity & Flow, Velocity enhancement, Anti-aliasing

Motivation: 4D flow MRI suffers from different sources of noise and aliasing artifacts. However, the existing techniques for enhancing velocities in 4D flow MRI encounter reliability problems with varying flow patterns or acquisition parameters.

Goal(s): Our goal was to develop a velocity enhancement an anti-aliasing technique for 4D Flow MRI that can be easily applied to diverse flow types.

Approach: We incorporate a vector potential into a neural network to predict velocity fields that strictly adhere to the divergence-free condition.

Results: Results from simulated 4D flow MRI images demonstrate significant noise reduction and aliasing correction.

Impact: The proposed Physics-Informed Neural Network enables the recovery of noise-free and aliasing artifact-free velocity fields using divergence-free terms in the network without the need for tuning hyperparameters in the training function, enhancing the applicability of these networks to different datasets.

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