Neural Architecture Search for Compressed Sensing Magnetic Resonance Image Reconstruction
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Recent works have demonstrated that deep learning (DL) based compressed sensing (CS) implementation can provide impressive improvements to reconstruct high-quality MR images from sub-sampling k-space data. However, network architectures adopted in current methods are all designed by handcraft, thus the performances of these networks are limited by researchers' expertise and labor. In this manuscript, we proposed a novel and efficient MR image reconstruction framework by Neural Architecture Search (NAS) algorithm. The inner cells in our reconstruction network are automatically defined from a flexible search space in a differentiable manner. Comparing to previous works where only several common convolutional operations are tried by human, our method can explore different operations (e.g. dilated convolution) with their possible combinations sufficiently. Our proposed method can also reach a better trade-off between computation cost and reconstruction performance for practical clinical translation. Experiments performed on a publicly available dataset show that our network produces better reconstruction results compared to the previous state-of-the-art methods in terms of PSNR and SSIM with 4 times fewer computation resources. The final network architecture found by the algorithm can also offer insights for network architecture designed in other medical image analysis applications.
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