Universal generative modeling in dual domains for dynamic MRI

Abstract

Dynamic magnetic resonance image reconstruction from incomplete k‐space data has generated great research interest due to its ability to reduce scan time. Nevertheless, the reconstruction problem remains a thorny issue due to its ill posed nature. Recently, diffusion models, especially score‐based generative models, have demonstrated great potential in terms of algorithmic robustness and flexibility of utilization. Moreover, a unified framework through the variance exploding stochastic differential equation is proposed to enable new sampling methods and further extend the capabilities of score‐based generative models. Therefore, by taking advantage of the unified framework, we propose a k‐space and image dual‐domain collaborative universal generative model (DD‐UGM), which combines the score‐based prior with a low‐rank regularization penalty to reconstruct highly under‐sampled measurements. More precisely, we extract prior components from both image and k‐space domains via a universal generative model and adaptively handle these prior components for faster processing while maintaining good generation quality. Experimental comparisons demonstrate the noise reduction and detail preservation abilities of the proposed method. Moreover, DD‐UGM can reconstruct data of different frames by only training a single frame image, which reflects the flexibility of the proposed model.