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Abstract #2241

Physics-informed Variational Auto-Encoder to generate synthetic multi-echo chemical shift-encoded liver MR images

Juan Pablo Meneses1,2, Juan Cristobal Gana3, Jose Eduardo Galgani4,5, Cristian Tejos1,2,6, Zhaolin Chen7,8, and Sergio Uribe1,2,9
1Biomedical Imaging Center, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, 2i-Health Millennium Institute for Intelligent Healthcare Engineering, Santiago, Chile, 3Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition Department, Division of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, 4Nutrition & Dietetics. Department of Health Sciences; Faculty of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, 5Department of Nutrition, Diabetes and Metabolism. Faculty of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, 6Department of Electrical Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, 7Monash Biomedical Imaging, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 8Department of Data Science and AI, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 9Department of Medical Imaging and Radiation Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Synopsis

Keywords: Other AI/ML, Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence, Generative Model

Motivation: Deep Learning (DL)-based methods to quantify liver PDFF have had robustness difficulties due to the lack of large and heterogeneous training datasets with known results.

Goal(s): To create a DL algorithm to synthesize realistic multi-echo liver MR images given a set of arbitrary MR scan parameters.

Approach: To use a physics-driven approach to create a DL-based generative model able to synthesize realistic liver CSE-MR images with different compositions and geometries.

Results: Our framework enabled a reliable customization of MR scan parameters, by directly adjusting them in the physical model. Feasibility of training a DL method purely based on synthetic data was also demonstrated.

Impact: We successfully generated realistic multi-echo liver MR images with diverse geometries and compositions, which can be used to efficiently train DL-based methods for liver PDFF quantification. The physics-driven nature of our model enables the customization of MR scan parameters.

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