An Unsupervised Deep Learning Method for Parallel Cardiac MRI via Time-Interleaved Sampling

12/20/2019
by   Yanjie Zhu, et al.
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Deep learning has achieved good success in cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) reconstruction, in which convolutional neural networks (CNNs) learn the mapping from undersampled k-space to fully sampled images. Although these deep learning methods can improve reconstruction quality without complex parameter selection or a lengthy reconstruction time compared with iterative methods, the following issues still need to be addressed: 1) all of these methods are based on big data and require a large amount of fully sampled MRI data, which is always difficult for cardiac MRI; 2) All of these methods are only applicable for single-channel images without exploring coil correlation. In this paper, we propose an unsupervised deep learning method for parallel cardiac MRI via a time-interleaved sampling strategy. Specifically, a time-interleaved acquisition scheme is developed to build a set of fully encoded reference data by directly merging the k-space data of adjacent time frames. Then these fully encoded data can be used to train a parallel network for reconstructing images of each coil separately. Finally, the images from each coil are combined together via a CNN to implicitly explore the correlations between coils. The comparisons with classic k-t FOCUSS, k-t SLR and L+S methods on in vivo datasets show that our method can achieve improved reconstruction results in an extremely short amount of time.

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