Su, Michelle, Cemre Ariyurek, Serge Vasylechko, Onur Afacan, and Sila Kurugol. 2024. “An Optimized Binning and Probabilistic Slice Sharing Algorithm for Motion Correction in Abdominal DW-MRI”. ArXiv Preprint ArXiv:2409.00798.
Publications
2024
Wu, Shaoju, Sila Kurugol, and Andy Tsai. 2024. “Improving the Radiographic Image Analysis of the Classic Metaphyseal Lesion via Conditional Diffusion Models”. Medical Image Analysis 97: 103284.
Utkur, Mustafa, Liam Timms, Zhe Wang, Tess Wallace, Sila Kurugol, and Onur Afacan. 2024. “Rapid T 2 Mapping With Blip-Reversed Multi-Echo Planar Imaging.”
Vasylechko, Serge Didenko, Simon K Warfield, Sila Kurugol, and Onur Afacan. 2024. “Improved Myelin Water Fraction Mapping With Deep Neural Networks Using Synthetically Generated 3D Data”. Medical Image Analysis 91: 102966.
Wu, Shaoju, Sila Kurugol, Paul K Kleinman, Kirsten Ecklund, Michele Walters, Susan A Connolly, Patrick Johnston, and Andy Tsai. 2024. “Deep Generative Model of the Distal Tibial Classic Metaphyseal Lesion in Infants: Assessment of Synthetic Images”. Radiology Advances 1 (2): umae018.
Ariyurek, Cemre, Aziz Koçanaoğulları, Onur Afacan, and Sila Kurugol. 2024. “Motion-Compensated Image Reconstruction for Improved Kidney Function Assessment Using Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MRI”. NMR in Biomedicine 37 (6): e5116.
2023
Ariyurek, Cemre, Tess E Wallace, Tobias Kober, Sila Kurugol, and Onur Afacan. 2023. “Prospective Motion Correction in Kidney MRI Using FID Navigators”. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 89 (1): 276–285.
2022
Vasylechko, Serge, Simon Keith Warfield, Sila Kurugol, and Onur Afacan. 2022. “SynthMap: a Generative Model for Synthesis of 3D Datasets for Quantitative MRI Parameter Mapping of Myelin Water Fraction”. In Medical Imaging With Deep Learning.
Grattan-Smith, Damien, Jeanne Chow, Sila Kurugol, and Richard Alan Jones. 2022. “Quantitative Renal Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Magnetic Resonance Urography”. Pediatric Radiology 52: 228-48.
Koçanaoğulları, Aziz, Cemre Ariyurek, Onur Afacan, and Sila Kurugol. 2022. “Learning the Regularization in DCE-MR Image Reconstruction for Functional Imaging of Kidneys”. IEEE Access.
Kidney DCE-MRI aims at both qualitative assessment of kidney anatomy and quantitative assessment of kidney function by estimating the tracer kinetic (TK) model parameters. Accurate estimation of TK model parameters requires an accurate measurement of the arterial input function (AIF) with high temporal resolution. Accelerated imaging is used to achieve high temporal resolution, which yields under-sampling artifacts in the reconstructed images. Compressed sensing (CS) methods offer a variety of reconstruction options. Most commonly, sparsity of temporal differences is encouraged for regularization to reduce artifacts. Increasing regularization in CS methods removes the ambient artifacts but also over-smooths the signal temporally which reduces the parameter estimation accuracy. In this work, we propose a single image trained deep neural network to reduce MRI under-sampling artifacts without reducing the accuracy of functional imaging markers. Instead of regularizing with a penalty term in optimization, we promote regularization by generating images from a lower dimensional representation. In this manuscript we motivate and explain the lower dimensional input design. We compare our approach to CS reconstructions with multiple regularization weights. Proposed approach results in kidney biomarkers that are highly correlated with the ground truth markers estimated using the CS reconstruction which was optimized for functional analysis. At the same time, the proposed approach reduces the artifacts in the reconstructed images.
