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Fat-Water Phantoms for Magnetic Resonance Imaging Validation: A Flexible and Scalable Protocol
Published on: September 7, 2018
Fat-water MRI separation using deep complex convolution network
Moorthy Ganeshkumar1, Devasenathipathy Kandasamy2, Raju Sharma2
1Centre for Biomedical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Hauz Khas, New Delhi, 110016, India.
Objective:
Deep complex convolutional networks (DCCNs) utilize complex-valued convolutions and can process complex-valued MRI signals directly without splitting them into two real-valued magnitude and phase components. The performance of DCCN and real-valued U-Net is thoroughly investigated in the physics-informed subject-specific ad-hoc reconstruction method for fat-water separation and is compared against a widely used reference approach.
Materials And Methods:
A comprehensive test dataset (n = 33) was used for performance analysis. The 2012 ISMRM fat-water separation workshop dataset containing 28 batches of multi-echo MRIs with 3-15 echoes from the abdomen, thigh, knee, and phantoms, acquired with 1.5 T and 3 T scanners were used. Additionally, five MAFLD patients multi-echo MRIs acquired from our clinical radiology department were also used.
Results:
The quantitative results demonstrated that DCCN produced fat-water maps with better normalized RMS error and structural similarity index with the reference approach, compared to real-valued U-Nets in the ad-hoc reconstruction method for fat-water separation. The DCCN achieved an overall average SSIM of 0.847 ± 0.069 and 0.861 ± 0.078 in generating fat and water maps, respectively, in contrast the U-Net achieved only 0.653 ± 0.166 and 0.729 ± 0.134. The average liver PDFF from DCCN achieved a correlation coefficient R of 0.847 with the reference approach.
