End-to-End Variational Networks for Accelerated MRI Reconstruction

The slow acquisition speed of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has led to the development of two complementary methods: acquiring multiple views of the anatomy simultaneously (parallel imaging) and acquiring fewer samples than necessary for traditional signal processing methods (compressed sensing). While the combination of these methods has the potential to allow much faster scan times, reconstruction from such undersampled multi-coil data has remained an open problem. In this paper, we present a new approach to this problem that extends previously proposed variational methods by learning fully end-to-end. Our method obtains new state-of-the-art results on the fastMRI dataset for both brain and knee MRIs.

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Task Dataset Model Metric Name Metric Value Global Rank Uses Extra
Training Data
Result Benchmark
MRI Reconstruction fastMRI Brain 4x End-to-end variational network SSIM 0.959 # 1
PSNR 41 # 2
MRI Reconstruction fastMRI Brain 8x End-to-end variational network SSIM 0.943 # 1
PSNR 38 # 2
MRI Reconstruction fastMRI Knee 4x End-to-end variational network SSIM 0.930 # 1
PSNR 40 # 2
MRI Reconstruction fastMRI Knee 8x End-to-end variational network SSIM 0.890 # 3
PSNR 37 # 3
MRI Reconstruction fastMRI Knee Val 8x E2E-VarNet (train+val) SSIM 0.8936 # 4
PSNR 37.30 # 3
Params (M) 30 # 1
NMSE 0.0087 # 3

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