AliasNet: Alias Artefact Suppression Network for Accelerated Phase-Encode MRI
Marlon E. Bran Lorenzana, Shekhar S. Chandra, Feng Liu

TL;DR
AliasNet introduces a novel architecture that explicitly regularizes aliasing artefacts in phase-encode MRI by leveraging 1D decoupling techniques, improving image reconstruction quality and scalability over existing methods.
Contribution
The paper proposes a new 1D + 2D reconstruction framework that explicitly regularizes aliasing artefacts, enhancing MRI image quality and scalability compared to prior approaches.
Findings
Improved image quality with AliasNet modules combined with existing 2D DL techniques.
AliasNet enables better performance scaling than simply enlarging 2D networks.
Explicit 1D regularization effectively suppresses structured aliasing artefacts.
Abstract
Sparse reconstruction is an important aspect of MRI, helping to reduce acquisition time and improve spatial-temporal resolution. Popular methods are based mostly on compressed sensing (CS), which relies on the random sampling of k-space to produce incoherent (noise-like) artefacts. Due to hardware constraints, 1D Cartesian phase-encode under-sampling schemes are popular for 2D CS-MRI. However, 1D under-sampling limits 2D incoherence between measurements, yielding structured aliasing artefacts (ghosts) that may be difficult to remove assuming a 2D sparsity model. Reconstruction algorithms typically deploy direction-insensitive 2D regularisation for these direction-associated artefacts. Recognising that phase-encode artefacts can be separated into contiguous 1D signals, we develop two decoupling techniques that enable explicit 1D regularisation and leverage the excellent 1D incoherence…
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Taxonomy
TopicsAdvanced MRI Techniques and Applications · Advanced X-ray Imaging Techniques · Sparse and Compressive Sensing Techniques
Methods1-Dimensional Convolutional Neural Networks · Balanced Selection
