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End-to-End Variational Networks for Accelerated MRI Reconstruction

14 Apr 2020arXiv:2004.06688archive 2025-07-28

Anuroop Sriram, Jure Zbontar, Tullie Murrell, Aaron Defazio, C. Lawrence Zitnick, Nafissa Yakubova, Florian Knoll, Patricia Johnson

The slow acquisition speed of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has led to the development of two complementary methods: acquiring multiple views of the anatomy simultaneously (parallel imaging) and acquiring fewer samples than necessary for traditional signal processing methods (compressed sensing). While the combination of these methods has the potential to allow much faster scan times, reconstruction from such undersampled multi-coil data has remained an open problem. In this paper, we present a new approach to this problem that extends previously proposed variational methods by learning fully end-to-end. Our method obtains new state-of-the-art results on the fastMRI dataset for both brain and knee MRIs.

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AnatomyMRI Reconstructioncompressed sensing

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
MRI Reconstruction fastMRI Brain 4x End-to-end variational network PSNR 41 #1 of 2 Archive leaderboard report
MRI Reconstruction fastMRI Brain 4x End-to-end variational network SSIM 0.959 #1 of 2 Archive leaderboard report
MRI Reconstruction fastMRI Brain 8x End-to-end variational network PSNR 38 #1 of 2 Archive leaderboard report
MRI Reconstruction fastMRI Brain 8x End-to-end variational network SSIM 0.943 #1 of 2 Archive leaderboard report
MRI Reconstruction fastMRI Knee 4x End-to-end variational network PSNR 40 #1 of 2 Archive leaderboard report
MRI Reconstruction fastMRI Knee 4x End-to-end variational network SSIM 0.930 #1 of 2 Archive leaderboard report
MRI Reconstruction fastMRI Knee 8x End-to-end variational network PSNR 37 #3 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
MRI Reconstruction fastMRI Knee 8x End-to-end variational network SSIM 0.890 #3 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
MRI Reconstruction fastMRI Knee Val 8x E2E-VarNet (train+val) NMSE 0.0087 #4 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
MRI Reconstruction fastMRI Knee Val 8x E2E-VarNet (train+val) PSNR 37.30 #4 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
MRI Reconstruction fastMRI Knee Val 8x E2E-VarNet (train+val) Params (M) 30 #4 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
MRI Reconstruction fastMRI Knee Val 8x E2E-VarNet (train+val) SSIM 0.8936 #4 of 4 Archive leaderboard report

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