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ArticleMagnetic resonance in medicine2022

Automated detection and reacquisition of motion-degraded images in fetal HASTE imaging at 3 T.

Borjan Gagoski, Junshen Xu, Paul Wighton, M Dylan Tisdall, Robert Frost, Wei-Ching Lo, Polina Golland, Andre van der Kouwe, Elfar Adalsteinsson, P Ellen Grant

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10 authors.

Borjan GagoskiFetal Neonatal Neuroimaging and Developmental Science Center, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3777-2621
Junshen XuDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0853-9866
Paul WightonAthinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6787-3856
M Dylan TisdallDepartment of Radiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0454-3112
Robert FrostDepartment of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2849-9240
Wei-Ching LoSiemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1893-0500
Polina GollandDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2516-731X
Andre van der KouweDepartment of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2754-6594
Elfar AdalsteinssonDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7637-2914
P Ellen GrantFetal Neonatal Neuroimaging and Developmental Science Center, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1005-4013

Funding

Training and DisseminationP41EB015902 · NIBIB · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI KIKINIS, RON, WESTIN, CARL-FREDRIK · 2012 to 2022
$20.9M
Genetic Analysis and Manipulation Core (GAEC)P50HD105351 · NICHD · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI Hisashi Umemori · 2021 to 2026
$9.4M
Advanced Fetal ImagingR01EB017337 · NIBIB · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI ADALSTEINSSON, ELFAR, GRANT, PATRICIA ELLEN · 2014 to 2018
$6.2M
Noninvasive Realtime Assessment of Placental Structure and Function with Novel MR Imaging MethodsU01HD087211 · NICHD · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI GRANT, PATRICIA ELLEN, WALD, LAWRENCE L · 2015 to 2015
$4.9M
Novel MRI Assessment of Placental Structure and Function Throughout PregnancyR01HD100009 · NICHD · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI ADALSTEINSSON, ELFAR, GRANT, PATRICIA ELLEN · 2019 to 2023
$3.6M
Neuroimaging and gut microbiome markers of development in HIV-exposed uninfected infantsR01HD093578 · NICHD · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI HOLMES, MARTHA, KABA, MAMADOU · 2017 to 2022
$2.9M
Fetal MRI: robust self-driving brain acquisition and body movement quantificationR01EB032708 · NIBIB · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI ADALSTEINSSON, ELFAR, GRANT, PATRICIA ELLEN · 2022 to 2025
$2.8M
Extension of a longitudinal cognitive and brain imaging study of early-treated perinatally HIV infected children through adolescenceR01HD099846 · NICHD · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI LAUGHTON, BARBARA, MEINTJES, ERNESTA MARIA · 2019 to 2023
$2.7M
Neonatal imaging as an early marker of neurodevelopment and predictor of cognitive performance in infants exposed to HIV and ART in utero and perinatallyR01HD085813 · NICHD · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI LAUGHTON, BARBARA, MEINTJES, ERNESTA MARIA · 2016 to 2020
$2.3M
High-Speed Motion-Corrected Pediatric Neuroimaging with MRIR00HD074649 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI TISDALL, MATTHEW DYLAN · 2015 to 2017
$706k
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Abstract

purposeFetal brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging suffers from unpredictable and unconstrained fetal motion that causes severe image artifacts even with half-Fourier single-shot fast spin echo (HASTE) readouts. This work presents the implementation of a closed-loop pipeline that automatically detects and reacquires HASTE images that were degraded by fetal motion without any human interaction.

methodsA convolutional neural network that performs automatic image quality assessment (IQA) was run on an external GPU-equipped computer that was connected to the internal network of the MRI scanner. The modified HASTE pulse sequence sent each image to the external computer, where the IQA convolutional neural network evaluated it, and then the IQA score was sent back to the sequence. At the end of the HASTE stack, the IQA scores from all the slices were sorted, and only slices with the lowest scores (corresponding to the slices with worst image quality) were reacquired.

resultsThe closed-loop HASTE acquisition framework was tested on 10 pregnant mothers, for a total of 73 acquisitions of our modified HASTE sequence. The IQA convolutional neural network, which was successfully employed by our modified sequence in real time, achieved an accuracy of 85.2% and area under the receiver operator characteristic of 0.899.

conclusionThe proposed acquisition/reconstruction pipeline was shown to successfully identify and automatically reacquire only the motion degraded fetal brain HASTE slices in the prescribed stack. This minimizes the overall time spent on HASTE acquisitions by avoiding the need to repeat the entire stack if only few slices in the stack are motion-degraded.

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FetusMagnetic Resonance ImagingFemaleHumansImage Processing, Computer-AssistedMotionPregnancyautomated image quality assessmentfetal brain MRIHASTE MRI with reacquisition

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PMID34888942
PMCPMC8810713

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