This study presents a significant advancement in unsupervised magnetic resonance (MR) image harmonization through the development of SR-Param-MPMGen, a novel framework that translates clinical MR acquisitions into an invariant, isotropic space. Building upon existing methods for multi-parametric map (MPM) generation, our approach introduces automatic parameter prediction, enabling physics-based simulations to convert qualitative MR images into quantitative MPMs without relying on manual parameter inputs or paired training data. The efficacy of SR-Param-MPMGen is validated through image reconstruction-quality analysis and downstream segmentation tasks, demonstrating statistically significant improvements in healthy tissue segmentation compared to a state-of-the-art style transfer method. These results underscore the potential of our approach to improve data harmonization and analysis in large-scale neuroimaging studies and clinical applications, particularly in scenarios with heterogeneous or missing data.

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Unsupervised MRI Harmonization via Parameter Prediction and Super-Resolved MPMs

  • Pedro Borges,
  • Virginia Fernandez,
  • Parashkev Nachev,
  • Sebastien Ourselin,
  • M. Jorge Cardoso

摘要

This study presents a significant advancement in unsupervised magnetic resonance (MR) image harmonization through the development of SR-Param-MPMGen, a novel framework that translates clinical MR acquisitions into an invariant, isotropic space. Building upon existing methods for multi-parametric map (MPM) generation, our approach introduces automatic parameter prediction, enabling physics-based simulations to convert qualitative MR images into quantitative MPMs without relying on manual parameter inputs or paired training data. The efficacy of SR-Param-MPMGen is validated through image reconstruction-quality analysis and downstream segmentation tasks, demonstrating statistically significant improvements in healthy tissue segmentation compared to a state-of-the-art style transfer method. These results underscore the potential of our approach to improve data harmonization and analysis in large-scale neuroimaging studies and clinical applications, particularly in scenarios with heterogeneous or missing data.