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Abstract #4484

Computationally Efficient IMplicit Training Strategy for UNrolled NEtworks (IMUNNE) for Reconstruction of Accelerated Cardiac Dynamic MRI

Nikolay Iakovlev1, Florian Andreas Schiffers2, Lexiaozi Fan1, Santiago Lopez Tapia3, KyungPyo Hong1, Dima Bishara1,4, Jane Wilcox5, Daniel C Lee1,5, Aggelos K Katsaggelos3, and Daniel Kim1,4
1Radiology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, United States, 2Computer Science, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States, 3Electrical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States, 4Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States, 5Medicine, Cardiology Division, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, United States

Synopsis

Keywords: AI/ML Image Reconstruction, Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence, Compressed Sensing, Unrolled Network, Implicit Network

Motivation: Unrolled networks (UN) achieve state-of-the-art performance in undersampled dynamic MRI reconstruction but suffer from long training times and extensive GPU memory cost.

Goal(s): To apply an implicit training strategy for UNs (IMUNNE) in combination with transfer learning to develop an efficient and versatile reconstruction technique for accelerated dynamic cardiac MRI.

Approach: We compare IMUNNE with a complex denoiser U-Net and an end-to-end UN on three different highly undersampled dynamic cardiac MRI datasets.

Results: For all datasets, we observed that: (1) both unrolled architectures outperform CU-Net with respect to image quality; (2) compared to end-to-end UN, IMUNNE significantly reduced both training and inference times.

Impact: This work has the potential to facilitate a more widespread adoption of highly-accelerated, cardiac MRI by reducing training time, inference time and memory cost of state-of-the-art unrolled reconstruction methods, thereby lowering the clinical hardware requirements and the requisite energy consumption.

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