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Swin Transformer and the Unet Architecture to Correct Motion Artifacts in Magnetic Resonance Image Reconstruction.
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International journal of biomedical imaging [Int J Biomed Imaging] 2024 May 02; Vol. 2024, pp. 8972980. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 May 02 (Print Publication: 2024). - Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- We present a deep learning-based method that corrects motion artifacts and thus accelerates data acquisition and reconstruction of magnetic resonance images. The novel model, the Motion Artifact Correction by Swin Network (MACS-Net), uses a Swin transformer layer as the fundamental block and the Unet architecture as the neural network backbone. We employ a hierarchical transformer with shifted windows to extract multiscale contextual features during encoding. A new dual upsampling technique is employed to enhance the spatial resolutions of feature maps in the Swin transformer-based decoder layer. A raw magnetic resonance imaging dataset is used for network training and testing; the data contain various motion artifacts with ground truth images of the same subjects. The results were compared to six state-of-the-art MRI image motion correction methods using two types of motions. When motions were brief (within 5 s), the method reduced the average normalized root mean square error (NRMSE) from 45.25% to 17.51%, increased the mean structural similarity index measure (SSIM) from 79.43% to 91.72%, and increased the peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) from 18.24 to 26.57 dB. Similarly, when motions were extended from 5 to 10 s, our approach decreased the average NRMSE from 60.30% to 21.04%, improved the mean SSIM from 33.86% to 90.33%, and increased the PSNR from 15.64 to 24.99 dB. The anatomical structures of the corrected images and the motion-free brain data were similar.<br />Competing Interests: The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest regarding the publication of this paper.<br /> (Copyright © 2024 Md. Biddut Hossain et al.)
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- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1687-4188
- Volume :
- 2024
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- International journal of biomedical imaging
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 38725808
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1155/2024/8972980