MRI: Magnetic Resonance Q-Space Imaging Using Generating Function and Bayesian Inference

Eizou Umezawa, Yukiko Sonoda, Itsuki Itoshiro

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Abstract

Diffusional kurtosis imaging provides the kurtosis for the diffusion displacement of water molecules in vivo. Kurtosis-related metrics demonstrate high sensitivities in several disease diagnoses; however, they contain large systematic and statistical errors. The systematic error can be caused by the truncation of series expansions of the generating functions used for fitting to provide the diffusion parameters, and the cause of the statistical error is overfitting. If we increase the truncation order to reduce the systematic error, overfitting becomes increasingly severe. Hence, a Bayesian approach is developed, in which the arbitrariness regarding the determination of the posterior distributions or the regularization parameter is excluded as much as possible. The Bayesian approach effectively prevents overfitting and reduces imaging noise in kurtosis maps, thereby enabling the use of higher-order terms in the fitting. Our simulation shows that the use of higher-order terms reduced truncation-derived systematic errors in kurtosis estimation.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMultidisciplinary Computational Anatomy
Subtitle of host publicationToward Integration of Artificial Intelligence with MCA-based Medicine
PublisherSpringer Nature
Pages315-321
Number of pages7
ISBN (Electronic)9789811643255
ISBN (Print)9789811643248
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 01-01-2021

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Medicine
  • General Biochemistry,Genetics and Molecular Biology

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