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IDDNet: a deep interactive dual-domain convolutional neural network with auxiliary modality for fast MRI reconstruction

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    Yi Cao is currently pursuing a master’s degree at the University of Science and Technology of China. Her research focuses mainly on fast MRI reconstruction based on deep learning

    Hongwei Du is currently an Associate Professor at the School of Information Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). He received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electronic Science and Technology, USTC, in 2007. His research interests include medical image processing based on deep learning, fast MRI imaging principle and algorithm, and advanced biomedical imaging system

  • Corresponding author: E-mail: duhw@ustc.edu.cn
  • Received Date: 31 December 2023
  • Accepted Date: 22 February 2024
  • Available Online: 01 April 2024
  • Reconstructing a complete image accurately from an undersampled k-space matrix is a viable approach for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) acceleration. In recent years, numerous deep learning (DL)-based methods have been employed to improve MRI reconstruction. Among these methods, the cross-domain method has been proven to be effective. However, existing cross-domain reconstruction algorithms sequentially link the image domain and k-space networks, disregarding the interplay between different domains, consequently leading to a deficiency in reconstruction accuracy. In this work, we propose a deep interactive dual-domain network (IDDNet) with an auxiliary modality for accelerating MRI reconstruction to effectively extract pertinent information from multiple MR domains and modalities. The IDDNet first extracts shallow features from low-resolution target modalities in the image domain to obtain visual representation information. In the following feature processing, a parallel interactive architecture with dual branches is designed to extract deep features from relevant information of dual domains simultaneously to avoid redundant priority priors in sequential links. Furthermore, the model uses additional information from the auxiliary modality to refine the structure and improve the reconstruction accuracy. Numerous experiments at different sampling masks and acceleration rates on the MICCAI BraTS 2019 brain and fastMRI knee datasets show that IDDNet achieves excellent accelerated MRI reconstruction performance.
    We propose IDDNet, a parallel dual-domain interaction framework with an auxiliary modality, to accelerate MRI reconstruction.
    Reconstructing a complete image accurately from an undersampled k-space matrix is a viable approach for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) acceleration. In recent years, numerous deep learning (DL)-based methods have been employed to improve MRI reconstruction. Among these methods, the cross-domain method has been proven to be effective. However, existing cross-domain reconstruction algorithms sequentially link the image domain and k-space networks, disregarding the interplay between different domains, consequently leading to a deficiency in reconstruction accuracy. In this work, we propose a deep interactive dual-domain network (IDDNet) with an auxiliary modality for accelerating MRI reconstruction to effectively extract pertinent information from multiple MR domains and modalities. The IDDNet first extracts shallow features from low-resolution target modalities in the image domain to obtain visual representation information. In the following feature processing, a parallel interactive architecture with dual branches is designed to extract deep features from relevant information of dual domains simultaneously to avoid redundant priority priors in sequential links. Furthermore, the model uses additional information from the auxiliary modality to refine the structure and improve the reconstruction accuracy. Numerous experiments at different sampling masks and acceleration rates on the MICCAI BraTS 2019 brain and fastMRI knee datasets show that IDDNet achieves excellent accelerated MRI reconstruction performance.
    • We extract and interactively utilize relevant information from different MR domains by designing a hierarchical feature extraction and dual-domain parallel interaction network structure.
    • We combine multimodal auxiliary imaging technology and leverage similar information between different MR modalities to enhance the reconstruction effect.
    • The experimental results show that our model provides better visual and quantitative reconstruction results at both low and high acceleration rates with various sampling masks.

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    Figure  1.  Relationships among the different MRI modalities used for reconstruction. The FFT operator refers to the 2D fast Fourier transform, and the IFFT operator refers to the 2D inverse fast Fourier transform.

    Figure  2.  Visualization of data in different domains. (a) Spatial (image) domain visualization of cosine waves; (b) frequency domain visualization of cosine waves; (c) image domain visualization of MR data; (d) frequency domain (k-space) visualization of MR data.

    Figure  3.  Overview of the architecture of the proposed IDDNet.

    Figure  4.  Block diagrams of component modules. (a) The residual dense (RD) block, which contains several 3×3 convolution and LeakyReLU combined convolution layers and one 1×1 convolution layer for dimensionality reduction. The growth rate of the dense blocks is set to 32, and the number of combined convolution layers is set to 6. (b) Fusion attention (FA) block. (c) The residual dilated dense attention (RDDA) block, which uses the residual dilated dense (RDD) block and FA block for feature extraction, and 1×1 convolution for channel dimensionality reduction. The RDD module replaced the ordinary convolution in Fig. 4(a) with dilated convolution of different dilation rates. (d) Dual-domain interaction (DDI) block.

    Figure  5.  The masks used in the experiments. The masks displayed in the sequence from left to right are labeled 4× Random mask, 4× Equispaced mask, 8× Random mask and 8× Equispaced mask.

    Figure  6.  Visual comparisons and error maps of IDDNet with the state-of-the-art methods on the BraTS 2019 dataset.

    Figure  7.  Visual comparisons and error maps of IDDNet with the state-of-the-art methods on the fastMRI dataset.

    Figure  8.  Visual comparisons of IDDNet and its variations on the BraTs2019 dataset.

    [1]
    Griswold M A, Jakob P M, Heidemann R M, et al. Generalized autocalibrating partially parallel acquisitions (GRAPPA). Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 2002, 47 (6): 1202–1210. doi: 10.1002/mrm.10171
    [2]
    Lustig M, Donoho D, Pauly J M. Sparse MRI: The application of compressed sensing for rapid MR imaging. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 2007, 58 (6): 1182–1195. doi: 10.1002/mrm.21391
    [3]
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    [4]
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    [5]
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    [7]
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