Abstract
To design a new deep learning network for fast and accurate water-fat separation by exploring the correlations between multiple echoes in multi-echo gradient-recalled echo (mGRE) sequence and evaluate the generalization capabilities of the network for different echo times, field inhomogeneities, and imaging regions. A new multi-echo bidirectional convolutional residual network (MEBCRN) was designed to separate water and fat images in a fast and accurate manner for the mGRE data. This new MEBCRN network contains 2 main modules, the first 1 is the feature extraction module, which learns the correlations between consecutive echoes, and the other one is the water-fat separation module that processes the feature information extracted from the feature extraction module. The multi-layer feature fusion (MLFF) mechanism and residual structure were adopted in the water-fat separation module to increase separation accuracy and robustness. Moreover, we trained the network using in vivo abdomen images and tested it on the abdomen, knee, and wrist images. The results showed that the proposed network could separate water and fat images accurately. The comparison of the proposed network and other deep learning methods shows the advantage in both quantitative metrics and robustness for different TEs, field inhomogeneities, and images acquired for various imaging regions. The proposed network could learn the correlations between consecutive echoes and separate water and fat images effectively. The deep learning method has certain generalization capabilities for TEs and field inhomogeneity. Although the network was trained only in vivo abdomen images, it could be applied for different imaging regions.
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