MRI superresolution using self-similarity and image priors

  • Authors:
  • José V. Manjón;Pierrick Coupé;Antonio Buades;D. Louis Collins;Montserrat Robles

  • Affiliations:
  • Instituto de Aplicaciones de las Tecnologías de la Información y de las Comunicaciones Avanzadas, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain;McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Canada;Mathématiques et Informatique, Université Paris Descartes, Paris Cedex 06, France and Department de Matemàtiques i Informàtica, Universitat Illes Balears, Palma de Mallorca, Sp ...;McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Canada;Instituto de Aplicaciones de las Tecnologías de la Información y de las Comunicaciones Avanzadas, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Biomedical Imaging
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In Magnetic Resonance Imaging typical clinical settings, both low- and high-resolution images of different types are routinarily acquired. In some cases, the acquired low-resolution images have to be upsampled to match with other high-resolution images for posterior analysis or postprocessing such as registration or multimodal segmentation. However, classical interpolation techniques are not able to recover the high-frequency information lost during the acquisition process. In the present paper, a new superresolution method is proposed to reconstruct high-resolution images from the low-resolution ones using information from coplanar high resolution images acquired of the same subject. Furthermore, the reconstruction process is constrained to be physically plausible with the MR acquisition model that allows a meaningful interpretation of the results. Experiments on synthetic and real data are supplied to show the effectiveness of the proposed approach. A comparison with classical state-of-the-art interpolation techniques is presented to demonstrate the improved performance of the proposed methodology.