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ArticleBMC medical imaging2024

MRI reconstruction with enhanced self-similarity using graph convolutional network.

Qiaoyu Ma, Zongying Lai, Zi Wang, Yiran Qiu, Haotian Zhang, Xiaobo Qu

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Qiaoyu Ma *School of Ocean Information Engineering, Jimei University, Xiamen, China.
Zongying Lai *School of Ocean Information Engineering, Jimei University, Xiamen, China. zongyinglai@jmu.edu.cn.
Zi WangDepartment of Electronic Science, Biomedical Intelligent Cloud R&D Center, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Plasma and Magnetic Resonance, National Institute for Data Science in Health and Medicine, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China.
Yiran QiuSchool of Ocean Information Engineering, Jimei University, Xiamen, China.
Haotian ZhangSchool of Ocean Information Engineering, Jimei University, Xiamen, China.
Xiaobo QuDepartment of Electronic Science, Biomedical Intelligent Cloud R&D Center, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Plasma and Magnetic Resonance, National Institute for Data Science in Health and Medicine, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China. quxiaobo@xmu.edu.cn.

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Xiaobo Qu 62122064; 61971361; 61871341Zongying Lai 61901188; 2022J05163; JT180280
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Abstract

backgroundRecent Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) perform low-error reconstruction in fast Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). Most of them convolve the image with kernels and successfully explore the local information. Nonetheless, the non-local image information, which is embedded among image patches relatively far from each other, may be lost due to the limitation of the receptive field of the convolution kernel. We aim to incorporate a graph to represent non-local information and improve the reconstructed images by using the Graph Convolutional Enhanced Self-Similarity (GCESS) network.

methodsFirst, the image is reconstructed into the graph to extract the non-local self-similarity in the image. Second, GCESS uses spatial convolution and graph convolution to process the information in the image, so that local and non-local information can be effectively utilized. The network strengthens the non-local similarity between similar image patches while reconstructing images, making the reconstruction of structure more reliable.

resultsExperimental results on in vivo knee and brain data demonstrate that the proposed method achieves better artifact suppression and detail preservation than state-of-the-art methods, both visually and quantitatively. Under 1D Cartesian sampling with 4 × acceleration (AF = 4), the PSNR of knee data reached 34.19 dB, 1.05 dB higher than that of the compared methods; the SSIM achieved 0.8994, 2% higher than the compared methods. Similar results were obtained for the reconstructed images under other sampling templates as demonstrated in our experiment.

conclusionsThe proposed method successfully constructs a hybrid graph convolution and spatial convolution network to reconstruct images. This method, through its training process, amplifies the non-local self-similarities, significantly benefiting the structural integrity of the reconstructed images. Experiments demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms the state-of-the-art reconstruction method in suppressing artifacts, as well as in preserving image details.

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BrainImage Processing, Computer-AssistedMagnetic Resonance ImagingNeural Networks, ComputerAlgorithmsArtifactsHumansKneeDeep learningFast magnetic resonance imagingGraph convolutional networkImage reconstruction

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PMCPMC11100064

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