HyperCMR: Enhanced Multi-Contrast CMR Reconstruction with Eagle Loss

Accelerating image acquisition for cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMRI) is a critical task. CMRxRecon2024 challenge aims to set the state of the art for multi-contrast CMR reconstruction. This paper presents HyperCMR, a novel framework designed to accelerate the reconstruction of multi-contrast cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) images. HyperCMR enhances the existing PromptMR model by incorporating advanced loss functions, notably the innovative Eagle Loss, which is specifically designed to recover missing high-frequency information in undersampled k-space. Extensive experiments conducted on the CMRxRecon2024 challenge dataset demonstrate that HyperCMR consistently outperforms the baseline across multiple evaluation metrics, achieving superior SSIM and PSNR scores.

Detecting respiratory motion artefacts for cardiovascular MRIs to ensure high-quality segmentation

While machine learning approaches perform well on their training domain, they generally tend to fail in a real-world application. In cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging (CMR), respiratory motion represents a major challenge in terms of acquisition quality and therefore subsequent analysis and final diagnosis. We present a workflow which predicts a severity score for respiratory motion in CMR for the CMRxMotion challenge 2022. This is an important tool for technicians to immediately provide feedback on the CMR quality during acquisition, as poor-quality images can directly be re-acquired while the patient is still available in the vicinity. Thus, our method ensures that the acquired CMR holds up to a specific quality standard before it is used for further diagnosis. Therefore, it enables an efficient base for proper diagnosis without having time and cost-intensive re-acquisitions in cases of severe motion artefacts. Combined with our segmentation model, this can help cardiologists and technicians in their daily routine by providing a complete pipeline to guarantee proper quality assessment and genuine segmentations for cardiovascular scans. The code base is available at https://github.com/MECLabTUDA/QA_med_data/tree/dev_QA_CMRxMotion.