Segmentation-Free Velocity Field Super-Resolution on 4D Flow MRI - Ecole Centrale de Nantes
Journal Articles IEEE Transactions on Image Processing Year : 2024

Segmentation-Free Velocity Field Super-Resolution on 4D Flow MRI

Abstract

Blood flow observation is of high interest in cardiovascular disease diagnosis and assessment. For this purpose, 2D Phase-Contrast MRI is widely used in the clinical routine. 4D flow MRI sequences, which dynamically image the anatomic shape and velocity vectors within a region of interest, are promising but rarely used due to their low resolution and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation is considered as a reference solution for resolution enhancement. However, its precision relies on image segmentation and a clinical expertise for the definition of the vessel borders. The main contribution of this paper is a Segmentation-Free Super-Resolution (SFSR) algorithm. Based on inverse problem methodology, SFSR relies on minimizing a compound criterion involving: a data fidelity term, a fluid mechanics term, and a spatial velocity smoothing term. The proposed algorithm is evaluated with respect to state-of-theart solutions, in terms of quantification error and computation time, on a synthetic 3D dataset with several noise levels, resulting in a 59% RMSE improvement and factor 2 super-resolution with a noise standard deviation of 5% of the Venc. Finally, its performance is demonstrated, with a scale factor of 2 and 3, on a pulsed flow phantom dataset with more complex patterns. The application on in-vivo were achievable within the 10 min. computation time.
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hal-04851200 , version 1 (20-12-2024)

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Sébastien Levilly, Saïd Moussaoui, Jean-Michel Serfaty. Segmentation-Free Velocity Field Super-Resolution on 4D Flow MRI. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 2024, 33, pp.5637-5649. ⟨10.1109/TIP.2024.3470553⟩. ⟨hal-04851200⟩
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