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Abstract #3814

OptiFlow: Deep Learning-Based Motion Estimation and Frame Interpolation for Brain MRI

Hosein Neeli1, Ioannis Seimenis2, Diego R. Martin3, Nikolaos V. Tsekos1, and Phillip A. Martin3
1Department of Computer Science, University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States, 2National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece, 3Department of Radiology, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX, United States

Synopsis

Keywords: AI/ML Image Reconstruction, AI/ML Image Reconstruction

Motivation: High-quality MRI acquisitions often require long scan times causing motion artifacts and image distortions. Accelerated scan times are essential to improve efficiency and reduce image distortions.

Goal(s): The goal of this work is to interpolate intermediate unacquired slices from an accelerated acquisition of acquired slices.

Approach: Our proposed method was pretrained on video frames, fine-tuned on 221 randomly selected healthy subjects from the OASIS-1 Dataset, and tested on a cohort of 10 subjects.

Results: The proposed model demonstrates the ability to interpolate intermediate MRI slices with relatively high similarity to the ground-truth.

Impact: This work serves as a proof of concept, in which our optical flow-based deep learning technique has the potential to reduce MRI acquisition times, overcome issues of image distortions, and enhance overall image quality.

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