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A subject-specific unsupervised deep learning method for quantitative susceptibility mapping using implicit neural representation
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DOI：10.1016/j.media.2024.103173.png)
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Quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM) is an MRI-based technique that estimates the underlying tissue magnetic susceptibility based on phase signal. Deep learning (DL)-based methods have shown promise in handling the challenging ill-posed inverse problem for QSM reconstruction. However, they require extensive paired training data that are typically unavailable and suffer from generalization problems. Recent modelincorporated DL approaches also overlook the non-local effect of the tissue phase in applying the source-tofield forward model due to patch-based training constraint, resulting in a discrepancy between the prediction and measurement and subsequently suboptimal QSM reconstruction. This study proposes an unsupervised and subject-specific DL method for QSM reconstruction based on implicit neural representation (INR), referred to as INR-QSM. INR has emerged as a powerful framework for learning a high-quality continuous representation of the signal (image) by exploiting its internal information without training labels. In INR-QSM, the desired susceptibility map is represented as a continuous function of the spatial coordinates, parameterized by a fully-connected neural network. The weights are learned by minimizing a loss function that includes a data fidelity term incorporated by the physical model and regularization terms. Additionally, a novel phase compensation strategy is proposed for the first time to account for the non-local effect of tissue phase in data consistency calculation to make the physical model more accurate. Our experiments show that INR-QSM outperforms traditional established QSM reconstruction methods and the compared unsupervised DL method both qualitatively and quantitatively, and is competitive against supervised DL methods under data perturbations.
Keywords:
Quantitative susceptibility mapping
Implicit neural representation
Unsupervised learning
Phase compensation
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