High-resolution (HR) magnetic resonance images (MRI) provide detailed anatomical information important for clinical application and quantitative image analysis. However, HR MRI conventionally comes at the cost of longer scan time, smaller spatial coverage, and lower signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). Recent studies have shown that single image super-resolution (SISR), a technique to recover HR details from one single low-resolution (LR) input image, could provide high quality image details with the help of advanced deep convolutional neural networks (CNN). However, deep neural networks consume memory heavily and run slowly, especially in 3D settings. In this paper, we propose a novel 3D neural network design, namely a multi-level densely connected super-resolution network (mDCSRN) with generative adversarial network (GAN)–guided training. The mDCSRN trains and inferences quickly, and the GAN promotes realistic output hardly distinguishable from original HR images. Our results from experiments on a dataset with 1,113 subjects shows that our new architecture outperforms other popular deep learning methods in recovering 4x resolution-downgraded images and runs 6x faster.
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Chen, Y., Shi, F., Christodoulou, A. G., Xie, Y., Zhou, Z., & Li, D. (2018). Efficient and accurate MRI super-resolution using a generative adversarial network and 3D multi-level densely connected network. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 11070 LNCS, pp. 91–99). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00928-1_11
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