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Multi-parameter molecular MRI quantification using physics-informed self-supervised learning

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Alex Finkelstein
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Nikita Vladimirov
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Moritz Zaiß
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Perlman, Or *
DOI:10.1038/s42005-025-02063-8delete
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Biophysical model fitting plays a key role in obtaining quantitative parameters from physiological signals and images. However, the model complexity for molecular magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) often translates into excessive computation time, which makes clinical use impractical. Here, we present a generic computational approach for solving the parameter extraction inverse problem posed by ordinary differential equation (ODE) modeling coupled with experimental measurement of the system dynamics. This is achieved by formulating a numerical ODE solver to function as a step-wise analytical one, thereby making it compatible with automatic differentiation-based optimization. This enables efficient gradient-based model fitting, and provides a new approach to parameter quantification based on self-supervised learning from a single data observation. The neural-network-based train-by-fit pipeline was used to quantify semisolid magnetization transfer (MT) and chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) amide proton exchange parameters in the human brain, in an in-vivo molecular MRI study (n = 4). The entire pipeline of the first whole brain quantification was completed in 18.3 +/- 8.3 minutes. Reusing the single-subject-trained network for inference in new subjects took 1.0 +/- 0.2 s, to provide results in agreement with literature values and scan-specific fit results.
Keywords:
MAGNETIZATION-TRANSFER
INVERSE PROBLEMS
NEURAL-NETWORKS
CEST
EQUATIONS
DESIGN
AGENTS
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Communications Physics cover
Communications Physics
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friedrich alexander univ erlangen nu?rnberg fau
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461
Papers: 134
Citations: 12
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