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Jui-Yo Hsu1, Pin-Hsun Lian2, Tzu-Yi Chuang3

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This study introduces a self-supervised AI pipeline to create high-resolution, isotropic knee MRI scans from standard anisotropic data. This method improves visualization and analysis of subtle abnormalities without needing costly ground-truth images.

Keywords:
3D abnormality detectionDenoising diffusion modelIsotropic enhancementMusculoskeletal imagingSelf-supervised learning

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Area of Science:

  • Medical Imaging
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Biomedical Engineering

Background:

  • Musculoskeletal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) acceleration is limited by the challenge of acquiring fully-isotropic, high-resolution volumes, which is clinically costly.
  • Anisotropic scans, common in practice, have reduced through-plane resolution, degrading multiplanar visualization, obscuring subtle abnormalities, and hindering 3D analyses.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate a two-stage, self-supervised deep learning pipeline for converting anisotropic knee MRI scans into isotropic volumes and 3D abnormality maps.
  • To obviate the need for paired high-resolution ground-truth data in MRI super-resolution.

Main Methods:

  • A two-stage, fully self-supervised pipeline was developed: Stage 1 uses a multi-view generative adversarial network (GAN) for super-resolution, and Stage 2 employs an anatomy-conditioned denoising-diffusion model for generating abnormality maps.
  • The pipeline learns directly from anisotropic turbo-spin-echo volumes, converting 8:1 anisotropic data into isotropic images without requiring paired high-resolution datasets.

Main Results:

  • The framework significantly improved image quality metrics (Fréchet inception distance) and achieved superior Kernel Inception Distance (KID) / Learned Perceptual Image Patch Similarity (LPIPS) scores compared to other unsupervised methods.
  • Orthopedists preferred the enhanced images in 65-67% of blinded comparisons, and the isotropic enhancement improved downstream tasks like femur-tibia segmentation and bone-marrow lesion quantification.
  • Robustness was demonstrated across five imaging centers, various perturbations, and transferability to two additional MRI protocols.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed self-supervised pipeline effectively generates isotropic knee MRI images and abnormality maps from anisotropic scans, surpassing current unsupervised super-resolution methods in perceptual quality and clinical utility.
  • This approach eliminates the need for ground-truth isotropic images, facilitating retrospective studies and prospective scan-time reduction in diverse knee MRI settings.