Title
Referenceless distortion correction of gradient-echo echo-planar imaging under inhomogeneous magnetic fields based on a deep convolutional neural network.
Abstract
Single-shot gradient-echo echo-planar imaging (GE-EPI) plays a significant role in applications where high temporal resolution is necessary. However, GE-EPI is susceptible to inhomogeneous magnetic fields that will cause image distortion. Most existing methods either need additional acquisitions for field mapping or cannot correct the distortion at high field. Here, we propose a new algorithm based on a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) to solve this problem without additional acquisitions. The residual learning and the cascaded structure improved the performance of the CNN on distortion correction. A simulated dataset was used for training. The simulated and experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method can correct the image distortion caused by field inhomogeneity.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1016/j.compbiomed.2018.07.010
Computers in Biology and Medicine
Keywords
Field
DocType
Magnetic resonance imaging,Inhomogeneous magnetic field,Distortion correction,Convolutional neural network,Residual learning
Computer vision,Residual,Magnetic field,Distortion correction,Computer science,Convolutional neural network,Echo-planar imaging,High field,Artificial intelligence,Distortion,Temporal resolution
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
100
0010-4825
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.39
25
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Pu Liao120.39
Jun Zhang2406.65
Kun Zeng31165.48
Yonggui Yang421.06
Shuhui Cai5146.10
Gang Guo623.43
Congbo Cai7105.90