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Abstract #3570

DAES: Self-Supervised Parameter Estimation Model for MR Fingerprinting

Jinghang Tan1, Huihui Ye2, Mengze Gao3, Zihan Li4, Qiyuan Tian4, and Berkin Bilgic5,6
1School of Software, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 2State Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Instrumentation, College of Optical Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, 3Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, 4Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 5Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, United States, 6Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States

Synopsis

Keywords: MR Fingerprinting, MR Fingerprinting, self-supervised learning

Motivation: Accurate estimation of relaxation parameters using MRF requires lengthy acquisitions as it benefits from having multiple spiral interleaves to boost the data quality.

Goal(s): We aim to reduce acquisition time by denoising highly under-sampled data while retaining the fidelity of the estimated parameter maps.

Approach: An unsupervised convolutional neural network called DAES is proposed. It combines Denoising Auto-coder (DAE) with subspace modeling, taking advantage of both denoising framework and Bloch simulation-based dictionary information.

Results: DAES outperforms conventional dictionary matching in both simulated and in-vivo data for MRF, demonstrating stronger ability to estimate parameters from highly under-sampled data.

Impact: Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting with the proposed unsupervised Denoising Auto-encoder permits high-quality T1 and T2 mapping while substantially reducing the acquisition time.

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