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Structured low-rank (SLR) algorithms, which exploit annihilation relations between the Fourier samples of a signal resulting from different properties, is a powerful image reconstruction framework in several applications. This scheme relies on low-rank matrix completion to estimate the annihilation relations from the measurements. The main challenge with this strategy is the high computational complexity of matrix completion. We introduce a deep learning (DL) approach to significantly reduce the computational complexity. Specifically, we use a convolutional neural network (CNN)-based filterbank that is trained to estimate the annihilation relations from imperfect (under-sampled and noisy) k-space measurements of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). The main reason for the computational efficiency is the pre-learning of the parameters of the non-linear CNN from exemplar data, compared to SLR schemes that learn the linear filterbank parameters from the dataset itself. Experimental comparisons show that the proposed scheme can enable calibration-less parallel MRI; it can offer performance similar to SLR schemes while reducing the runtime by around three orders of magnitude. Unlike pre-calibrated and self-calibrated approaches, the proposed uncalibrated approach is insensitive to motion errors and affords higher acceleration. The proposed scheme also incorporates image domain priors that are complementary, thus significantly improving the performance over that of SLR schemes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We introduce a generative smoothness regularization on manifolds (SToRM) model for the recovery of dynamic image data from highly undersampled measurements. The model assumes that the images in the dataset are non-linear mappings of low-dimensional latent vectors. We use the deep convolutional neural network (CNN) to represent the non-linear transformation. The parameters of the generator as well as the low-dimensional latent vectors are jointly estimated only from the undersampled measurements. This approach is different from traditional CNN approaches that require extensive fully sampled training data. We penalize the norm of the gradients of the non-linear mapping to constrain the manifold to be smooth, while temporal gradients of the latent vectors are penalized to obtain a smoothly varying time-series. The proposed scheme brings in the spatial regularization provided by the convolutional network. The main benefit of the proposed scheme is the improvement in image quality and the orders-of-magnitude reduction in memory demand compared to traditional manifold models. To minimize the computational complexity of the algorithm, we introduce an efficient progressive training-in-time approach and an approximate cost function. These approaches speed up the image reconstructions and offers better reconstruction performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]