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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2022
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2020
Siemens Healthcare Gmbh, Erlangen, DE;
Duke University, Durham, NC (US);
Xiaodong Zhong, Oak Park, CA (US);
Vibhas S. Deshpande, Austin, TX (US);
Mustafa R. Bashir, Cary, NC (US);
Siemens Healthcare GmbH, Erlangen, DE;
Duke University, Durham, NC (US);
Abstract
A computer-implemented method for using machine learning to suppress fat in acquired MR images includes receiving multi-echo images from an anatomical area of interest acquired using an MRI system. A first subset of the multi-echo images is acquired prior to application of contrast to the anatomical area of interest and a second subset of the multi-echo images is acquired after application of contrast to the anatomical area of interest. Next, data is generated including water images, fat images, and effective R*maps from the multi-echo images. The water images, the fat images, and the effective R*maps are used to create synthetic fat suppressed images. A neural network is trained to use the multi-echo images as input and the synthetic fat suppressed images as ground truth. A plurality of components of the neural network are saved to allow later deployment of the neural network on a computing system.