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Abstract #2991

Torch-Based Fitting for Accelerated Water Residual Removal in MRSI Data.

Federico Turco1 and Johannes Slotboom1
1Institute for Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology, Support Center for Advanced Neuroimaging (SCAN), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Synopsis

Keywords: Data Processing, Spectroscopy, Optimization, Torch, Auto-differentiation.

Motivation: This study addresses the time-consuming water residual removal process in MRSI, aiming to expedite it, given the lack of GPU implementation for methods like HLSVD-PRO.

Goal(s): We aim to increase water residual removal speed using Torch for GPU-parallelized linear combination model fitting.

Approach: Our method utilizes Torch to model and optimize water residuals fitting with 7-Lorentzian profiles. Performance is evaluated with in a large in-vivo dataset, comparing our method to HLSVD-PRO both in efficiency and accuracy.

Results: Our approach accelerates water residual removal, outperforming HLSVD-PRO in processing speed by a factor 14x, while mantaining equivalent quantification accuracy, offering promise for MRSI applications.

Impact: This study's accelerated water residual removal method in MRSI can benefit scientists and clinicians by reducing processing time. And it opens avenues for more extensive research in the topic.

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