Robust isotropic super-resolution by maximizing a Laplace posterior for MRI volumes

Xian-Hua Han; Yutaro Iwamoto; Akihiko Shiino; Yen-Wei Chen

doi:10.1117/12.2043361

21 March 2014 Robust isotropic super-resolution by maximizing a Laplace posterior for MRI volumes

Xian-Hua Han, Yutaro Iwamoto, Akihiko Shiino, Yen-Wei Chen

Proceedings Volume 9034, Medical Imaging 2014: Image Processing; 90342I (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2043361
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2014, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Magnetic resonance imaging can only acquire volume data with finite resolution due to various factors. In particular, the resolution in one direction (such as the slice direction) is much lower than others (such as the in-plane direction), yielding un-realistic visualizations. This study explores to reconstruct MRI isotropic resolution volumes from three orthogonal scans. This proposed super- resolution reconstruction is formulated as a maximum a posterior (MAP) problem, which relies on the generation model of the acquired scans from the unknown high-resolution volumes. Generally, the deviation ensemble of the reconstructed high-resolution (HR) volume from the available LR ones in the MAP is represented as a Gaussian distribution, which usually results in some noise and artifacts in the reconstructed HR volume. Therefore, this paper investigates a robust super-resolution by formulating the deviation set as a Laplace distribution, which assumes sparsity in the deviation ensemble based on the possible insight of the appeared large values only around some unexpected regions. In addition, in order to achieve reliable HR MRI volume, we integrates the priors such as bilateral total variation (BTV) and non-local mean (NLM) into the proposed MAP framework for suppressing artifacts and enriching visual detail. We validate the proposed robust SR strategy using MRI mouse data with high-definition resolution in two direction and low-resolution in one direction, which are imaged in three orthogonal scans: axial, coronal and sagittal planes. Experiments verifies that the proposed strategy can achieve much better HR MRI volumes than the conventional MAP method even with very high-magnification factor: 10.

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Xian-Hua Han, Yutaro Iwamoto, Akihiko Shiino, and Yen-Wei Chen "Robust isotropic super-resolution by maximizing a Laplace posterior for MRI volumes", Proc. SPIE 9034, Medical Imaging 2014: Image Processing, 90342I (21 March 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2043361

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Magnetic resonance imaging

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