High-Dimensional MR Reconstruction Integrating Subspace and Adaptive Generative Models

Objective:
To develop a new method that integrates subspace and generative image models for high-dimensional MR image reconstruction.
Methods:
We proposed a formulation that synergizes a low-dimensional subspace model of high-dimensional images, an adaptive generative image prior serving as spatial constraints on the sequence of “contrast-weighted” images or spatial coefficients of the subspace model, and a conventional sparsity regularization. A special pretraining plus subject-specific network adaptation strategy was proposed to construct an accurate generative-network-based representation for images with varying contrasts. An iterative algorithm was introduced to jointly update the subspace coefficients and the multi-resolution latent space of the generative image model that leveraged an recently proposed intermediate layer optimization technique for network inversion.
Results:
We evaluated the utility of the proposed method for two high-dimensional imaging applications: accelerated MR parameter mapping and high-resolution MR spectroscopic imaging. Improved performance over state-of-the-art subspace-based methods was demonstrated in both cases.
Conclusion:
The proposed method provided a new way to address high-dimensional MR image reconstruction problems by incorporating an adaptive generative model as a data-driven spatial prior for constraining subspace reconstruction.
Significance:
Our work demonstrated the potential of integrating data-driven and adaptive generative priors with canonical low-dimensional modeling for high-dimensional imaging problems.