Paper ID | MLR-APPL-BSIP.2 | ||
Paper Title | IMPROVING IMAGE QUALITY IN LOW-FIELD MRI WITH DEEP LEARNING | ||
Authors | Armando Garcia Hernandez, AIx-Marseille université, France; Pierre Fau, Institut Paoli-Calmettes, France; Stanislas Rapacchi, Julien Wojak, Aix-Marseille Université, France; Hugues Mailleux, Mohamed Benkreira, Institut Paoli-Calmettes, France; Mouloud Adel, Aix-Marseille Université, France | ||
Session | MLR-APPL-BSIP: Machine learning for biomedical signal and image processing | ||
Location | Area C | ||
Session Time: | Wednesday, 22 September, 08:00 - 09:30 | ||
Presentation Time: | Wednesday, 22 September, 08:00 - 09:30 | ||
Presentation | Poster | ||
Topic | Applications of Machine Learning: Machine learning for biomedical signal and image processing | ||
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Abstract | Low-field magnetic resonance (MR) images suffer from inherent low Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) compared to images acquired using high-field MRI scanners. Denoising these images could help and improve further processing, such as image segmentation. In this paper a Convolutional Neural Network AutoEncoder was designed with a dedicated loss function for noise reduction. A transfer learning approach was employed in which high-field high-SNR MR images, served as targets for learning from their noise-added counterparts. Evaluation of network performances was measured on both noisy high-field and low-field MR images that had not been included in the learning step. The proposed method outperformed major denoising methods applied to MR images. SNR improvements were quantified on low-field MR images. |