Application-driven MRI: joint reconstruction and segmentation from undersampled MRI data

Med Image Comput Comput Assist Interv. 2014;17(Pt 1):106-13. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-10404-1_14.

Abstract

Medical image segmentation has traditionally been regarded as a separate process from image acquisition and reconstruction, even though its performance directly depends on the quality and characteristics of these first stages of the imaging pipeline. Adopting an integrated acquisition-reconstruction-segmentation process can provide a more efficient and accurate solution. In this paper we propose a joint segmentation and reconstruction algorithm for undersampled magnetic resonance data. Merging a reconstructive patch-based sparse modelling and a discriminative Gaussian mixture modelling can produce images with enhanced edge information ultimately improving their segmentation.

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Artifacts*
  • Brain / anatomy & histology*
  • Heart Ventricles / anatomy & histology*
  • Humans
  • Image Enhancement / methods*
  • Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / methods*
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging / methods*
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Sample Size
  • Sensitivity and Specificity
  • Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted*