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Abstract #3046

Automatic background offset correction of cardiovascular 4D flow MRI data using Deep Learning

Federica Viola1,2, Chiara Trenti1,2, Mattias Ekstedt1,2, Farkas Vanky1,3, Carl-Johan Carlhäll1,2,4, Petter Dyverfeldt1,2, and Tino Ebbers1,2
1Division of Cardiovascular Medicine,Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden, 2Center for Medical Image Science and Visualization (CMIV), Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden, 3Department of Cardiology in Linköping, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden, 4Department of Clinical Physiology, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

Synopsis

Keywords: Flow, Flow, AI/Machine Learning; 4DflowMRI; phase offset; background offset

Motivation: Several approaches for background offset correction in 4D flow MRI exist, but none has proven fully effective. Best results are obtained with a post in-vivo phantom measurement as correction, but this, however, doubles the scan time.

Goal(s): To develop an automatic, deep learning-based background offset correction method for cardiovascular 4D flow MRI data, that uses static phantom measurements as ground truth.

Approach: The method consists in training a convolutional neural network with static-phantom measurement as ground truth. Results were compared to polynomial fit correction methods.

Results: The proposed method outperformed the conventional polynomial fit methods, and was comparable to the ground-truth phantom-based correction.

Impact: The proposed fully automated CNN-based background offset correction method outperformed the conventional background offset correction methods that use a polynomial fit to static tissue. This method has potential for significantly improving the data quality of cardiovascular 4D flow MRI.

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