Synthesizing Complex-Valued Multicoil MRI Data from Magnitude-Only Images

Author:

Deveshwar Nikhil123ORCID,Rajagopal Abhejit2,Sahin Sule12ORCID,Shimron Efrat3,Larson Peder E. Z.12ORCID

Affiliation:

1. UC Berkeley-UCSF Graduate Program in Bioengineering, Berkeley, CA 94701, USA

2. Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94016, USA

3. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94701, USA

Abstract

Despite the proliferation of deep learning techniques for accelerated MRI acquisition and enhanced image reconstruction, the construction of large and diverse MRI datasets continues to pose a barrier to effective clinical translation of these technologies. One major challenge is in collecting the MRI raw data (required for image reconstruction) from clinical scanning, as only magnitude images are typically saved and used for clinical assessment and diagnosis. The image phase and multi-channel RF coil information are not retained when magnitude-only images are saved in clinical imaging archives. Additionally, preprocessing used for data in clinical imaging can lead to biased results. While several groups have begun concerted efforts to collect large amounts of MRI raw data, current databases are limited in the diversity of anatomy, pathology, annotations, and acquisition types they contain. To address this, we present a method for synthesizing realistic MR data from magnitude-only data, allowing for the use of diverse data from clinical imaging archives in advanced MRI reconstruction development. Our method uses a conditional GAN-based framework to generate synthetic phase images from input magnitude images. We then applied ESPIRiT to derive RF coil sensitivity maps from fully sampled real data to generate multi-coil data. The synthetic data generation method was evaluated by comparing image reconstruction results from training Variational Networks either with real data or synthetic data. We demonstrate that the Variational Network trained on synthetic MRI data from our method, consisting of GAN-derived synthetic phase and multi-coil information, outperformed Variational Networks trained on data with synthetic phase generated using current state-of-the-art methods. Additionally, we demonstrate that the Variational Networks trained with synthetic k-space data from our method perform comparably to image reconstruction networks trained on undersampled real k-space data.

Funder

National Institutes of Health

University of California, San Francisco, AI Imaging and Cancer Award

Publisher

MDPI AG

Subject

Bioengineering

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