A comparison of machine learning methods for recovering noisy and missing 4D flow MRI data

Author:

Csala Hunor12ORCID,Amili Omid3,D'Souza Roshan M.4,Arzani Amirhossein12ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Utah Salt Lake City Utah USA

2. Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute University of Utah Salt Lake City Utah USA

3. Department of Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering University of Toledo Toledo Ohio USA

4. Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Wisconsin‐Milwaukee Milwaukee Wisconsin USA

Abstract

AbstractExperimental blood flow measurement techniques are invaluable for a better understanding of cardiovascular disease formation, progression, and treatment. One of the emerging methods is time‐resolved three‐dimensional phase‐contrast magnetic resonance imaging (4D flow MRI), which enables noninvasive time‐dependent velocity measurements within large vessels. However, several limitations hinder the usability of 4D flow MRI and other experimental methods for quantitative hemodynamics analysis. These mainly include measurement noise, corrupt or missing data, low spatiotemporal resolution, and other artifacts. Traditional filtering is routinely applied for denoising experimental blood flow data without any detailed discussion on why it is preferred over other methods. In this study, filtering is compared to different singular value decomposition (SVD)‐based machine learning and autoencoder‐type deep learning methods for denoising and filling in missing data (imputation). An artificially corrupted and voxelized computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation as well as in vitro 4D flow MRI data are used to test the methods. SVD‐based algorithms achieve excellent results for the idealized case but severely struggle when applied to in vitro data. The autoencoders are shown to be versatile and applicable to all investigated cases. For denoising, the in vitro 4D flow MRI data, the denoising autoencoder (DAE), and the Noise2Noise (N2N) autoencoder produced better reconstructions than filtering both qualitatively and quantitatively. Deep learning methods such as N2N can result in noise‐free velocity fields even though they did not use clean data during training. This work presents one of the first comprehensive assessments and comparisons of various classical and modern machine‐learning methods for enhancing corrupt cardiovascular flow data in diseased arteries for both synthetic and experimental test cases.

Publisher

Wiley

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