Improving in vivo human cerebral cortical surface reconstruction using data-driven super-resolution

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Accurate and automated reconstruction of the in vivo human cerebral cortical surface from anatomical magnetic resonance (MR) images facilitates the quantitative analysis of cortical structure. Anatomical MR images with sub-millimeter isotropic spatial resolution improve the accuracy of cortical surface and thickness estimation compared to the standard 1-millimeter isotropic resolution. Nonetheless, sub-millimeter resolution acquisitions require averaging multiple repetitions to achieve sufficient signal-to-noise ratio and are therefore long and potentially vulnerable to subject motion. We address this challenge by synthesizing sub-millimeter resolution images from standard 1-millimeter isotropic resolution images using a data-driven supervised machine learning-based super-resolution approach achieved via a deep convolutional neural network. We systematically characterize our approach using a large-scale simulated dataset and demonstrate its efficacy in empirical data. The super-resolution data provide improved cortical surfaces similar to those obtained from native sub-millimeter resolution data. The whole-brain mean absolute discrepancy in cortical surface positioning and thickness estimation is below 100 μm at the single-subject level and below 50 μm at the group level for the simulated data, and below 200 μm at the single-subject level and below 100 μm at the group level for the empirical data, making the accuracy of cortical surfaces derived from super-resolution sufficient for most applications.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:31

Enthalten in:

Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) - 31(2021), 1 vom: 01. Jan., Seite 463-482

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Tian, Qiyuan [VerfasserIn]
Bilgic, Berkin [VerfasserIn]
Fan, Qiuyun [VerfasserIn]
Ngamsombat, Chanon [VerfasserIn]
Zaretskaya, Natalia [VerfasserIn]
Fultz, Nina E [VerfasserIn]
Ohringer, Ned A [VerfasserIn]
Chaudhari, Akshay S [VerfasserIn]
Hu, Yuxin [VerfasserIn]
Witzel, Thomas [VerfasserIn]
Setsompop, Kawin [VerfasserIn]
Polimeni, Jonathan R [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Susie Y [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Anatomical magnetic resonance imaging
Convolutional neural network
Cortical surface reconstruction
Deep learning
Journal Article
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Super-resolution

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 10.01.2022

Date Revised 16.02.2024

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1093/cercor/bhaa237

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM314607676