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ArticleAnnals of biomedical engineering2025

Super-Resolving and Denoising 4D flow MRI of Neurofluids Using Physics-Guided Neural Networks.

Neal M Patel, Emily R Bartusiak, Sean M Rothenberger, A J Schwichtenberg, Edward J Delp, Vitaliy L Rayz, Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative

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Article in Annals of biomedical engineering, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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Neal M PatelBiomedical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA.
Emily R BartusiakElectrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA.
Sean M RothenbergerBiomedical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA.
A J SchwichtenbergHealth and Human Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA.
Edward J DelpBiomedical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA.
Vitaliy L RayzBiomedical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA. vrayz@purdue.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5615-3063
Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative

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Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative - SupplementU01AG024904 · NIA · NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE RES &EDUC · PI WEINER, MICHAEL W · 2004 to 2015
$121.0M
Risk Assessment of Cerebral Aneurysm Growth with 4D flow MRIR01HL115267 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI ANSARI, SAMEER A, LAWTON, MICHAEL T · 2013 to 2023
$4.2M
Foundation for the National Institutes of Health R01 HL11526National Institute of Health S10 OD0122336NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL115267NIA NIH HHS U01 AG024904Purdue Institute for Integrative Neuroscience, Purdue University Grand Challenges Award
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Abstract

purposeTo obtain high-resolution velocity fields of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and cerebral blood flow by applying a physics-guided neural network (div-mDCSRN-Flow) to 4D flow MRI.

methodsThe div-mDCSRN-Flow network was developed to improve spatial resolution and denoise 4D flow MRI. The network was trained with patches of paired high-resolution and low-resolution synthetic 4D flow MRI data derived from computational fluid dynamic simulations of CSF flow within the cerebral ventricles of five healthy cases and five Alzheimer's disease cases. The loss function combined mean squared error with a binary cross-entropy term for segmentation and a divergence-based regularization term for the conservation of mass. Performance was assessed using synthetic 4D flow MRI in one healthy and one Alzheimer' disease cases, an in vitro study of healthy cerebral ventricles, and in vivo 4D flow imaging of CSF as well as flow in arterial and venous blood vessels. Comparison was performed to trilinear interpolation, divergence-free radial basis functions, divergence-free wavelets, 4DFlowNet, and our network without divergence constraints.

resultsThe proposed network div-mDCSRN-Flow outperformed other methods in reconstructing high-resolution velocity fields from synthetic 4D flow MRI in healthy and AD cases. The div-mDCSRN-Flow network reduced error by 22.5% relative to linear interpolation for in vitro core voxels and by 49.5% in edge voxels.

conclusionThe results demonstrate generalizability of our 4D flow MRI super-resolution and denoising approach due to network training using flow patches and physics-based constraints. The mDCSRN-Flow network can facilitate MRI studies involving CSF flow measurements in cerebral ventricles and association of MRI-based flow metrics with cerebrovascular health.

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Alzheimer DiseaseCerebral VentriclesCerebrospinal FluidCerebrovascular CirculationMagnetic Resonance ImagingNeural Networks, ComputerAgedFemaleHumansMaleMiddle Aged4D flow MRICSFMachine learningPhysics-guided neural networks

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PMID39223318
PMCPMC12476268

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