Motion artifact reduction in abdominal MRIs using generative adversarial networks with perceptual similarity loss

Yunan Wu; Xijun Wang; Aggelos K. Katsaggelos

doi:10.1117/12.2605824

10 December 2021 Motion artifact reduction in abdominal MRIs using generative adversarial networks with perceptual similarity loss

Yunan Wu, Xijun Wang, Aggelos K. Katsaggelos

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Proceedings Volume 12088, 17th International Symposium on Medical Information Processing and Analysis; 120880H (2021) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2605824
Event: Seventeenth International Symposium on Medical Information Processing and Analysis, 2021, Campinas, Brazil

Abstract

The respiratory motion and the resulting artifacts are considered to be a big problem in abdominal Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), often burdening hospitals with unnecessary cost of time and money. Many deep learning techniques have recently been developed for removing these respiratory motion artifacts. However, fine-details, such as the vessels in liver MRIs, are often over-smoothed by many models, while these details are most important for medical diagnosis. Therefore, more realistic-looking reconstructed images are needed. To achieve this goal, in this paper, we design a Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN)-based model, and use the perceptual loss as part of our training loss to further enhance the images’ perceptual quality. To ensure the proper convergence of the GAN model, we add a pre-training step before the adversarial training. In addition, due to lack of image pairs of the clean image and its corresponding motion distorted image, we develop a motion simulation method via the k-space to mimic the motion generated artifacts. Benefiting from all these methods, our proposed model achieves high perceptual quality with an MSE of 0.002, an SSIM of 0.942, a PSNR of 33.894 and a perceptual distance metric of 0.015. Finally, it generates motion artifact reduced images with clearer and better fine-details, thus providing to radiologists more realistic MRI images for improved diagnosis. The code is available at [Code for Motion Reduction].

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Yunan Wu, Xijun Wang, and Aggelos K. Katsaggelos "Motion artifact reduction in abdominal MRIs using generative adversarial networks with perceptual similarity loss", Proc. SPIE 12088, 17th International Symposium on Medical Information Processing and Analysis, 120880H (10 December 2021); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2605824

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Magnetic resonance imaging

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