A Multi-Hierarchical Complementary Feature Interaction Network for Accelerated Multi-Modal MR Imaging

Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging is widely used in the clinical field due to its non-invasiveness, but the long scanning time is still a bottleneck for its popularization. Using the complementary information between multi-modal imaging to accelerate imaging provides a novel and effective MR fast imag...

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Main Authors: Haotian Zhang, Qiaoyu Ma, Yiran Qiu, Zongying Lai
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description Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging is widely used in the clinical field due to its non-invasiveness, but the long scanning time is still a bottleneck for its popularization. Using the complementary information between multi-modal imaging to accelerate imaging provides a novel and effective MR fast imaging solution. However, previous technologies mostly use simple fusion methods and fail to fully utilize their potential sharable knowledge. In this study, we introduced a novel multi-hierarchical complementary feature interaction network (MHCFIN) to realize joint reconstruction of multi-modal MR images with undersampled data and thus accelerate multi-modal imaging. Firstly, multiple attention mechanisms are integrated with a dual-branch encoder–decoder network to represent shared features and complementary features of different modalities. In the decoding stage, the multi-modal feature interaction module (MMFIM) acts as a bridge between the two branches, realizing complementary knowledge transfer between different modalities through cross-level fusion. The single-modal feature fusion module (SMFFM) carries out multi-scale feature representation and optimization of the single modality, preserving better anatomical details. Extensive experiments are conducted under different sampling patterns and acceleration factors. The results show that this proposed method achieves obvious improvement compared with existing state-of-the-art reconstruction methods in both visual quality and quantity.
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spelling doaj-art-7a3dfef7083f4be89c9b74e95cee91ef2024-11-08T14:33:17ZengMDPI AGApplied Sciences2076-34172024-10-011421976410.3390/app14219764A Multi-Hierarchical Complementary Feature Interaction Network for Accelerated Multi-Modal MR ImagingHaotian Zhang0Qiaoyu Ma1Yiran Qiu2Zongying Lai3School of Ocean Information Engineering, Jimei University, Xiamen 361021, ChinaSchool of Ocean Information Engineering, Jimei University, Xiamen 361021, ChinaSchool of Ocean Information Engineering, Jimei University, Xiamen 361021, ChinaSchool of Ocean Information Engineering, Jimei University, Xiamen 361021, ChinaMagnetic resonance (MR) imaging is widely used in the clinical field due to its non-invasiveness, but the long scanning time is still a bottleneck for its popularization. Using the complementary information between multi-modal imaging to accelerate imaging provides a novel and effective MR fast imaging solution. However, previous technologies mostly use simple fusion methods and fail to fully utilize their potential sharable knowledge. In this study, we introduced a novel multi-hierarchical complementary feature interaction network (MHCFIN) to realize joint reconstruction of multi-modal MR images with undersampled data and thus accelerate multi-modal imaging. Firstly, multiple attention mechanisms are integrated with a dual-branch encoder–decoder network to represent shared features and complementary features of different modalities. In the decoding stage, the multi-modal feature interaction module (MMFIM) acts as a bridge between the two branches, realizing complementary knowledge transfer between different modalities through cross-level fusion. The single-modal feature fusion module (SMFFM) carries out multi-scale feature representation and optimization of the single modality, preserving better anatomical details. Extensive experiments are conducted under different sampling patterns and acceleration factors. The results show that this proposed method achieves obvious improvement compared with existing state-of-the-art reconstruction methods in both visual quality and quantity.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/14/21/9764magnetic resonance imagingmulti-modal imagingdeep learningcomplementary feature fusion
spellingShingle Haotian Zhang
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Applied Sciences
magnetic resonance imaging
multi-modal imaging
deep learning
complementary feature fusion
title A Multi-Hierarchical Complementary Feature Interaction Network for Accelerated Multi-Modal MR Imaging
title_full A Multi-Hierarchical Complementary Feature Interaction Network for Accelerated Multi-Modal MR Imaging
title_fullStr A Multi-Hierarchical Complementary Feature Interaction Network for Accelerated Multi-Modal MR Imaging
title_full_unstemmed A Multi-Hierarchical Complementary Feature Interaction Network for Accelerated Multi-Modal MR Imaging
title_short A Multi-Hierarchical Complementary Feature Interaction Network for Accelerated Multi-Modal MR Imaging
title_sort multi hierarchical complementary feature interaction network for accelerated multi modal mr imaging
topic magnetic resonance imaging
multi-modal imaging
deep learning
complementary feature fusion
url https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/14/21/9764
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