Data- and Physics-Driven Deep Learning Based Reconstruction for Fast MRI: Fundamentals and Methodologies.

Journal: IEEE reviews in biomedical engineering
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Abstract

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a pivotal clinical diagnostic tool, yet its extended scanning times often compromise patient comfort and image quality, especially in volumetric, temporal and quantitative scans. This review elucidates recent advances in MRI acceleration via data and physics-driven models, leveraging techniques from algorithm unrolling models, enhancement-based methods, and plug-and-play models to the emerging full spectrum of generative model-based methods. We also explore the synergistic integration of data models with physics-based insights, encompassing the advancements in multi-coil hardware accelerations like parallel imaging and simultaneous multi-slice imaging, and the optimization of sampling patterns. We then focus on domain-specific challenges and opportunities, including image redundancy exploitation, image integrity, evaluation metrics, data heterogeneity, and model generalization. This work also discusses potential solutions and future research directions, with an emphasis on the role of data harmonization and federated learning for further improving the general applicability and performance of these methods in MRI reconstruction.

Authors

  • Jiahao Huang
    Beijing Smart Tree Medical Technology Co. Ltd., No.24, Huangsi Street, Xicheng District, Beijing, 100011, China.
  • Yinzhe Wu
  • Fanwen Wang
    Institute of Science and Technology for Brain-Inspired Intelligence, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China.
  • Yingying Fang
  • Yang Nan
  • Cagan Alkan
    Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, 350 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
  • Daniel Abraham
  • Congyu Liao
    Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Charlestown, Massachusetts.
  • Lei Xu
    Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of the Ministry of Education, Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.
  • Zhifan Gao
    School of Biomedical Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen, China.
  • Weiwen Wu
    Key Lab of Optoelectronic Technology and Systems, Ministry of Education, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400044, China.
  • Lei Zhu
    School of Civil and Hydraulic Engineering, Ningxia University, Yinchuan, China.
  • Zhaolin Chen
    Monash Biomedical Imaging, Monash University, Building 220, Clayton Campus, 770 Blackburn Rd, Clayton, Victoria, 3168, Australia. zhaolin.chen@monash.edu.
  • Peter Lally
  • Neal Bangerter
  • Kawin Setsompop
    Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
  • Yike Guo
    Department of Computing, Imperial College, London SW7 2AZ, UK. y.guo@imperial.ac.uk.
  • Daniel Rueckert
    Biomedical Image Analysis (BioMedIA) Group, Department of Computing, Imperial College London, UK. Electronic address: d.rueckert@imperial.ac.uk.
  • Ge Wang
    Biomedical Imaging Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA.
  • Guang Yang
    National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK.