Reconstruction of fetal brain MRI with intensity matching and complete outlier removal

Graphical abstract Highlights ► A new method for reconstruction of 3D fetal brain MRI from 2D slices is proposed. ► The super-resolution reconstruction is interleaved with motion correction. ► Corrupted or misaligned slices are automatically excluded. ► Novel intensity matching is shown to be essential for quality of reconstruction. ► Excellent results for clinical and optimized data.

• Publication year

  2012

• Venue

  Medical Image Anal.

• Publication date

  2012-12-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Computer Science, Engineering

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/j.media.2012.07.004PMID 22939612PMCID 4067058
• External record

  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

• Strong results are reported on both clinical data and optimized data.

  Confidence 0.90

  박진우 (dztg5apj7m) extractionB (s683577b42) reviewAK (4715169a40) review
• Novel intensity matching is presented as essential for obtaining high-quality reconstruction.

  Confidence 0.93

  박진우 (dztg5apj7m) extractionB (s683577b42) reviewAK (4715169a40) review
• Corrupted or misaligned slices are automatically excluded during reconstruction.

  Confidence 0.95

  박진우 (dztg5apj7m) extractionB (s683577b42) reviewAK (4715169a40) review
• Super-resolution reconstruction is interleaved with motion correction in the reconstruction pipeline.

  Confidence 0.97

  박진우 (dztg5apj7m) extractionB (s683577b42) reviewAK (4715169a40) review
• A new method reconstructs 3D fetal brain MRI from 2D slices.

  Confidence 0.98

  박진우 (dztg5apj7m) extractionB (s683577b42) reviewAK (4715169a40) review

• 2d slices

  input data, imaging data

  The planar MRI slice images used as the input data for reconstruction.

  박진우 (dztg5apj7m) extractionB (s683577b42) reviewAK (4715169a40) review
• 3d fetal brain mri reconstruction

  imaging task, method

  The task of building a volumetric fetal brain MRI image from a stack of 2D slices.

  Aliases: reconstruction of fetal brain MRI

  박진우 (dztg5apj7m) extractionB (s683577b42) reviewAK (4715169a40) review
• clinical data

  dataset, evaluation data

  Real-world fetal brain MRI data collected in a clinical setting for evaluating the reconstruction approach.

  박진우 (dztg5apj7m) extractionB (s683577b42) reviewAK (4715169a40) review
• complete outlier removal

  method, filtering strategy

  A filtering strategy that excludes slices judged to be corrupted or misaligned.

  Aliases: outlier removal

  박진우 (dztg5apj7m) extractionB (s683577b42) reviewAK (4715169a40) review
• corrupted or misaligned slices

  data quality issue, imaging data

  Input slices that are degraded by artifacts or spatial misregistration and may need to be discarded.

  박진우 (dztg5apj7m) extractionB (s683577b42) reviewAK (4715169a40) review
• intensity matching

  method, processing step

  A matching procedure that adjusts image intensities to align slices consistently before or during reconstruction.

  박진우 (dztg5apj7m) extractionB (s683577b42) reviewAK (4715169a40) review
• motion correction

  processing step, method

  A correction step that compensates for subject or slice motion during reconstruction.

  박진우 (dztg5apj7m) extractionB (s683577b42) reviewAK (4715169a40) review
• optimized data

  dataset, evaluation data

  Data prepared or tuned for favorable reconstruction conditions in the reported experiments.

  박진우 (dztg5apj7m) extractionB (s683577b42) reviewAK (4715169a40) review
• super-resolution reconstruction

  method, processing step

  A reconstruction step that increases spatial detail beyond the original slice resolution.

  Aliases: SR reconstruction

  박진우 (dztg5apj7m) extractionB (s683577b42) reviewAK (4715169a40) review

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