Wavelet-based edge correlation incorporated iterative reconstruction for undersampled MRI |
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Authors: | Hu Changwei Qu Xiaobo Guo Di Bao Lijun Chen Zhong |
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Affiliation: | a Department of Electronic Science, Fujian Key Laboratory of Plasma and Magnetic Resonance, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, Chinab Department of Communication Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China |
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Abstract: | Undersampling k-space is an effective way to decrease acquisition time for MRI. However, aliasing artifacts introduced by undersampling may blur the edges of magnetic resonance images, which often contain important information for clinical diagnosis. Moreover, k-space data is often contaminated by the noise signals of unknown intensity. To better preserve the edge features while suppressing the aliasing artifacts and noises, we present a new wavelet-based algorithm for undersampled MRI reconstruction. The algorithm solves the image reconstruction as a standard optimization problem including a ?2 data fidelity term and ?1 sparsity regularization term. Rather than manually setting the regularization parameter for the ?1 term, which is directly related to the threshold, an automatic estimated threshold adaptive to noise intensity is introduced in our proposed algorithm. In addition, a prior matrix based on edge correlation in wavelet domain is incorporated into the regularization term. Compared with nonlinear conjugate gradient descent algorithm, iterative shrinkage/thresholding algorithm, fast iterative soft-thresholding algorithm and the iterative thresholding algorithm using exponentially decreasing threshold, the proposed algorithm yields reconstructions with better edge recovery and noise suppression. |
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Keywords: | Compressed sensing Edge correlation Iterative thresholding MRI reconstruction Continuation scheme |
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