Dual independent pathway‐densely connected residual network with dilated convolution‐based arterial spin labeling MRI image reconstruction with minimum label‐control pairs

• Published in: International journal of imaging systems and technology Vol. 34; no. 2
• Main Authors: Shyna, A., Ushadevi Amma, C., John, Ansamma, Kesavadas, C., Thomas, Bejoy
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken, USA John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.03.2024; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: Alzheimer's disease; arterial spin labeling; Blood flow; cerebral blood flow; Data augmentation; Datasets; densely connected residual network; dilated convolution; Image acquisition; Image processing; Image reconstruction; Labeling; Labels; Magnetic resonance imaging; Medical imaging; Outliers (statistics); signal‐to‐noise ratio; Smoothing

Arterial spin labeling (ASL) is a non‐invasive MRI technique widely used to measure cerebral blood flow (CBF), but it suffers from poor SNR, requiring the acquisition of a large number of multiple Label‐Control (L‐C) pairs at the expense of prolonged acquisition time. This work proposed a novel deep...