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Abstract #4857

High-variability synthetic fat-water MRI dataset for testing the robustness of Deep Learning-based reconstruction models

Ganeshkumar M1, Devasenathipathy Kandasamy2, Raju Sharma2, and Amit Mehndiratta1,3
1Centre for Biomedical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology - Delhi, New Delhi, India, 2Department of Radio Diagnosis, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India, 3Department of Biomedical Engineering, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

Synopsis

Keywords: AI/ML Image Reconstruction, Quantitative Imaging, Fat-water seperation, PDFF, Deep Learning, Fat Quantification, Physics Informed Deep Learning, Synthetic MRI

Motivation: Deep Learning (DL) models have recently been used for fat-water separation in Multi-Echo MRI (ME-MRI). However, DL models may not always be robust and under-perform when not trained with a large and diverse dataset.

Goal(s): This research proposes high-variability synthetic ME-MRI generated using the biophysical model of fat-water separation as a tool for testing the generalizability and robustness of DL-based fat-water separation models.

Approach: High-variability synthetic ME-MRI was used to evaluate the robustness of the recent state-of-the-art DL-based Ad-Hoc Reconstruction (AHR) method for fat-water separation.

Results: The AHR method lacked robustness and synthetic ME-MRIs can be effectively used to test DL models.

Impact: The fat-water maps obtained by processing the Multi Echo-MRI (ME-MRI) are of diagnostic and prognostic value in many diseases. This study investigates the role of synthetic ME-MRIs with high variability in testing the robustness of Deep Learning-based fat-water separation models.

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