Region-focused multi-view transformer-based generative adversarial network for cardiac cine MRI reconstruction. 2023

Jun Lyu, and Guangyuan Li, and Chengyan Wang, and Chen Qin, and Shuo Wang, and Qi Dou, and Jing Qin
School of Computer and Control Engineering, Yantai University, Yantai, China.

Cardiac cine magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) reconstruction is challenging due to spatial and temporal resolution trade-offs. Temporal correlation in cardiac cine MRI is informative and vital for understanding cardiac dynamic motion. Exploiting the temporal correlations in cine reconstruction is crucial to resolve aliasing artifacts and maintaining the cardiac motion patterns. However, existing methods have the following shortcomings: (1) they simultaneously compute pairwise correlations along spatial and temporal dimensions to establish dependencies, ignoring that learning spatial contextual information first will benefit the temporal modeling. (2) most studies neglect to focus on reconstructing the local cardiac regions, resulting in insufficient reconstruction accuracy due to a relatively large field of view. To address these problems, we propose a region-focused multi-view transformer-based generative adversarial network for cardiac cine MRI reconstruction. The proposed transformer divides consecutive cardiac frames into multiple views for cross-view feature extraction, establishing long-distance dependencies among features and effectively learning the spatio-temporal information. We further design a cross-view attention for spatio-temporal information fusion, ensuring the interaction of different spatio-temporal information in each view and capturing more temporal correlations of the cardiac motion. In addition, we introduce a cardiac region detection loss for improving the reconstruction quality of the cardiac region. Experimental results demonstrated that our method outperforms state-of-the-art methods. Especially with an acceleration factor as high as 10×, our method can reconstruct images with better accuracy and perceptual quality.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D007091 Image Processing, Computer-Assisted A technique of inputting two-dimensional or three-dimensional images into a computer and then enhancing or analyzing the imagery into a form that is more useful to the human observer. Biomedical Image Processing,Computer-Assisted Image Processing,Digital Image Processing,Image Analysis, Computer-Assisted,Image Reconstruction,Medical Image Processing,Analysis, Computer-Assisted Image,Computer-Assisted Image Analysis,Computer Assisted Image Analysis,Computer Assisted Image Processing,Computer-Assisted Image Analyses,Image Analyses, Computer-Assisted,Image Analysis, Computer Assisted,Image Processing, Biomedical,Image Processing, Computer Assisted,Image Processing, Digital,Image Processing, Medical,Image Processings, Medical,Image Reconstructions,Medical Image Processings,Processing, Biomedical Image,Processing, Digital Image,Processing, Medical Image,Processings, Digital Image,Processings, Medical Image,Reconstruction, Image,Reconstructions, Image
D008279 Magnetic Resonance Imaging Non-invasive method of demonstrating internal anatomy based on the principle that atomic nuclei in a strong magnetic field absorb pulses of radiofrequency energy and emit them as radiowaves which can be reconstructed into computerized images. The concept includes proton spin tomographic techniques. Chemical Shift Imaging,MR Tomography,MRI Scans,MRI, Functional,Magnetic Resonance Image,Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Functional,Magnetization Transfer Contrast Imaging,NMR Imaging,NMR Tomography,Tomography, NMR,Tomography, Proton Spin,fMRI,Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging,Imaging, Chemical Shift,Proton Spin Tomography,Spin Echo Imaging,Steady-State Free Precession MRI,Tomography, MR,Zeugmatography,Chemical Shift Imagings,Echo Imaging, Spin,Echo Imagings, Spin,Functional MRI,Functional MRIs,Image, Magnetic Resonance,Imaging, Magnetic Resonance,Imaging, NMR,Imaging, Spin Echo,Imagings, Chemical Shift,Imagings, Spin Echo,MRI Scan,MRIs, Functional,Magnetic Resonance Images,Resonance Image, Magnetic,Scan, MRI,Scans, MRI,Shift Imaging, Chemical,Shift Imagings, Chemical,Spin Echo Imagings,Steady State Free Precession MRI
D006321 Heart The hollow, muscular organ that maintains the circulation of the blood. Hearts
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D016477 Artifacts Any visible result of a procedure which is caused by the procedure itself and not by the entity being analyzed. Common examples include histological structures introduced by tissue processing, radiographic images of structures that are not naturally present in living tissue, and products of chemical reactions that occur during analysis. Artefacts,Artefact,Artifact
D019028 Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Cine A type of imaging technique used primarily in the field of cardiology. By coordinating the fast gradient-echo MRI sequence with retrospective ECG-gating, numerous short time frames evenly spaced in the cardiac cycle are produced. These images are laced together in a cinematic display so that wall motion of the ventricles, valve motion, and blood flow patterns in the heart and great vessels can be visualized. Cine MRI,Cine Magnetic Resonance Imaging,Cine MRIs,MRI, Cine,MRIs, Cine

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