scholarly journals From Compressed-Sensing to Artificial Intelligence-Based Cardiac MRI Reconstruction

Author(s):  
Aurélien Bustin ◽  
Niccolo Fuin ◽  
René M. Botnar ◽  
Claudia Prieto
Author(s):  
Mei Sun ◽  
Jinxu Tao ◽  
Zhongfu Ye ◽  
Bensheng Qiu ◽  
Jinzhang Xu ◽  
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Background: In order to overcome the limitation of long scanning time, compressive sensing (CS) technology exploits the sparsity of image in some transform domain to reduce the amount of acquired data. Therefore, CS has been widely used in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) reconstruction. </P><P> Discussion: Blind compressed sensing enables to recover the image successfully from highly under- sampled measurements, because of the data-driven adaption of the unknown transform basis priori. Moreover, analysis-based blind compressed sensing often leads to more efficient signal reconstruction with less time than synthesis-based blind compressed sensing. Recently, some experiments have shown that nonlocal low-rank property has the ability to preserve the details of the image for MRI reconstruction. Methods: Here, we focus on analysis-based blind compressed sensing, and combine it with additional nonlocal low-rank constraint to achieve better MR images from fewer measurements. Instead of nuclear norm, we exploit non-convex Schatten p-functionals for the rank approximation. </P><P> Results & Conclusion: Simulation results indicate that the proposed approach performs better than the previous state-of-the-art algorithms.


Author(s):  
Martin Georg Zeilinger ◽  
Marco Wiesmüller ◽  
Christoph Forman ◽  
Michaela Schmidt ◽  
Camila Munoz ◽  
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Abstract Objectives To evaluate an image-navigated isotropic high-resolution 3D late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) prototype sequence with compressed sensing and Dixon water-fat separation in a clinical routine setting. Material and methods Forty consecutive patients scheduled for cardiac MRI were enrolled prospectively and examined with 1.5 T MRI. Overall subjective image quality, LGE pattern and extent, diagnostic confidence for detection of LGE, and scan time were evaluated and compared to standard 2D LGE imaging. Robustness of Dixon fat suppression was evaluated for 3D Dixon LGE imaging. For statistical analysis, the non-parametric Wilcoxon rank sum test was performed. Results LGE was rated as ischemic in 9 patients and non-ischemic in 11 patients while it was absent in 20 patients. Image quality and diagnostic confidence were comparable between both techniques (p = 0.67 and p = 0.66, respectively). LGE extent with respect to segmental or transmural myocardial enhancement was identical between 2D and 3D (water-only and in-phase). LGE size was comparable (3D 8.4 ± 7.2 g, 2D 8.7 ± 7.3 g, p = 0.19). Good or excellent fat suppression was achieved in 93% of the 3D LGE datasets. In 6 patients with pericarditis, the 3D sequence with Dixon fat suppression allowed for a better detection of pericardial LGE. Scan duration was significantly longer for 3D imaging (2D median 9:32 min vs. 3D median 10:46 min, p = 0.001). Conclusion The 3D LGE sequence provides comparable LGE detection compared to 2D imaging and seems to be superior in evaluating the extent of pericardial involvement in patients suspected with pericarditis due to the robust Dixon fat suppression. Key Points • Three-dimensional LGE imaging provides high-resolution detection of myocardial scarring. • Robust Dixon water-fat separation aids in the assessment of pericardial disease. • The 2D image navigator technique enables 100% respiratory scan efficacy and permits predictable scan times.


2013 ◽  
Vol 15 (Suppl 1) ◽  
pp. E14
Author(s):  
Jafar Zamani ◽  
Abbas N Moghaddam ◽  
Hamidreza Rad

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