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ArticleMedical image computing and computer-assisted intervention : MICCAI ... International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention2020

Semi-Supervised Learning for Fetal Brain MRI Quality Assessment with ROI consistency.

Junshen Xu, Sayeri Lala, Borjan Gagoski, Esra Abaci Turk, P Ellen Grant, Polina Golland, Elfar Adalsteinsson

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Article in Medical image computing and computer-assisted intervention : MICCAI ... International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

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  7. Fetal Neuroimaging Updates.Magnetic resonance imaging clinics of North America · 2021
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Junshen XuDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Sayeri LalaDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Borjan GagoskiFetal-Neonatal Neuroimaging and Developmental Science Center, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Esra Abaci TurkFetal-Neonatal Neuroimaging and Developmental Science Center, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
P Ellen GrantFetal-Neonatal Neuroimaging and Developmental Science Center, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Polina GollandDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Elfar AdalsteinssonDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA.
IIT@MIT · USBoston Children's Hospital · US

Funding

Training and DisseminationP41EB015902 · NIBIB · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI KIKINIS, RON, WESTIN, CARL-FREDRIK · 2012 to 2022
$20.9M
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
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
NIBIB NIH HHS P41 EB015902NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB032708NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD100009
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fetal brain MRI is useful for diagnosing brain abnormalities but is challenged by fetal motion. The current protocol for T2-weighted fetal brain MRI is not robust to motion so image volumes are degraded by inter- and intra-slice motion artifacts. Besides, manual annotation for fetal MR image quality assessment are usually time-consuming. Therefore, in this work, a semi-supervised deep learning method that detects slices with artifacts during the brain volume scan is proposed. Our method is based on the mean teacher model, where we not only enforce consistency between student and teacher models on the whole image, but also adopt an ROI consistency loss to guide the network to focus on the brain region. The proposed method is evaluated on a fetal brain MR dataset with 11,223 labeled images and more than 200,000 unlabeled images. Results show that compared with supervised learning, the proposed method can improve model accuracy by about 6% and outperform other state-of-the-art semi-supervised learning methods. The proposed method is also implemented and evaluated on an MR scanner, which demonstrates the feasibility of online image quality assessment and image reacquisition during fetal MR scans.

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Convolutional neural network (CNN)Fetal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)Image quality assessmentSemi-supervised learning

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