Title: Deep Learning with Domain Adaptation for Accelerated Projection-Reconstruction MR,
Abstract: Purpose: The radial k-space trajectory is a well-established sampling
trajectory used in conjunction with magnetic resonance imaging. However, the
radial k-space trajectory requires a large number of radial lines for
high-resolution reconstruction. Increasing the number of radial lines causes
longer acquisition time, making it more difficult for routine clinical use. On
the other hand, if we reduce the number of radial lines, streaking artifact
patterns are unavoidable. To solve this problem, we propose a novel deep
learning approach with domain adaptation to restore high-resolution MR images
from under-sampled k-space data.
Methods: The proposed deep network removes the streaking artifacts from the
artifact corrupted images. To address the situation given the limited available
data, we propose a domain adaptation scheme that employs a pre-trained network
using a large number of x-ray computed tomography (CT) or synthesized radial MR
datasets, which is then fine-tuned with only a few radial MR datasets.
Results: The proposed method outperforms existing compressed sensing
algorithms, such as the total variation and PR-FOCUSS methods. In addition, the
calculation time is several orders of magnitude faster than the total variation
and PR-FOCUSS methods.Moreover, we found that pre-training using CT or MR data
from similar organ data is more important than pre-training using data from the
same modality for different organ.
Conclusion: We demonstrate the possibility of a domain-adaptation when only a
limited amount of MR data is available. The proposed method surpasses the
existing compressed sensing algorithms in terms of the image quality and
computation time.