Clinical evaluation of k-space correlation informed motion artifact detection in segmented multi-slice MRI

Motion artifacts can negatively impact diagnosis, patient experience, and radiology workflow especially when a patient recall is required. Detecting motion artifacts while the patient is still in the scanner could potentially improve workflow and reduce costs by enabling immediate corrective action. We demonstrate in a clinical k-space dataset that using cross-correlation between adjacent phase-encoding lines can detect motion artifacts directly from raw k-space in multi-shot multi-slice scans. We train a split-attention residual network to examine the performance in predicting motion artifact severity. The network is trained on simulated data and tested on real clinical data.