FSC-loss: A Frequency-domain Structure Consistency Learning Approach for Signal Data Recovery and Reconstruction

TL;DR

This paper introduces FSC-loss, a frequency-domain structure consistency loss with a transformer-based network, significantly improving high-frequency signal recovery in biomedical signal data, reducing measurement time by over 60 times.

Contribution

It proposes a novel frequency-domain structure consistency loss and data embedding strategy for high-resolution signal reconstruction, outperforming state-of-the-art methods in speed and accuracy.

Findings

Outperforms SOTA in high-frequency signal recovery

Achieves high-resolution SM reconstruction in under 15 seconds

Reduces measurement time by over 60 times

Abstract

A core challenge for signal data recovery is to model the distribution of signal matrix (SM) data based on measured low-quality data in biomedical engineering of magnetic particle imaging (MPI). For acquiring the high-resolution (high-quality) SM, the number of meticulous measurements at numerous positions in the field-of-view proves time-consuming (measurement of a 37x37x37 SM takes about 32 hours). To improve reconstructed signal quality and shorten SM measurement time, existing methods explore to generating high-resolution SM based on time-saving measured low-resolution SM (a 9x9x9 SM just takes about 0.5 hours). However, previous methods show poor performance for high-frequency signal recovery in SM. To achieve a high-resolution SM recovery and shorten its acquisition time, we propose a frequency-domain structure consistency loss function and data component embedding strategy to model global and local structural information of SM. We adopt a transformer-based network to evaluate this function and the strategy. We evaluate our methods and state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods on the two simulation datasets and four public measured SMs in Open MPI Data. The results show that our method outperforms the SOTA methods in high-frequency structural signal recovery. Additionally, our method can recover a high-resolution SM with clear high-frequency structure based on a down-sampling factor of 16 less than 15 seconds, which accelerates the acquisition time over 60 times faster than the measurement-based HR SM with the minimum error (nRMSE=0.041). Moreover, our method is applied in our three in-house MPI systems, and boost their performance for signal reconstruction.