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Abstract #2653

Self-supervised Contrastive Learning for Automatic Image Quality Assessment in Whole-body MRI: Preliminary results in UK Biobank

Veronika Ecker1,2, Marcel Früh1, Bin Yang2, Sergios Gatidis1, and Thomas Küstner1
1University Hospital of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, 2University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

Synopsis

Keywords: Artifacts, Artifacts, Image Quality Assessment, Motion Correction, Self-supervised Contrastive Learning

Motivation: MRI is vital for many medical decisions, yet susceptible to motion artifacts. Impairment by motion artifacts can reduce the reliability of diagnoses and a motion‐free reacquisition can become time-/cost‐intensive. Moreover, in large-scale cohorts, manual inspection is impractical. An automated quality assessment is desirable, but collection of motion-free references is challenging or even impractical.

Goal(s): We aim for automatic image quality assessment without extensive labeled training data.

Approach: We present a self-supervised quality classification framework based on SimCLR operating as zero-shot learning.

Results: The framework achieves promising results for binary quality classification, while showcasing its potential for future work as continuous quality score.

Impact: By automating MRI quality assessment, our approach helps in preventing artifact propagation into downstream tasks without additional efforts for manual inspection or data labeling.

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