Print Email Facebook Twitter Evaluating the Robustness of the Recurrent Inference Machine Based on MRI Lesion Data from Multiple Sclerosis Patients Title Evaluating the Robustness of the Recurrent Inference Machine Based on MRI Lesion Data from Multiple Sclerosis Patients Author Pancras, Kevin (TU Delft Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering) Contributor Vos, F.M. (graduation committee) Tao, Q. (graduation committee) Caan, MWA (mentor) Karkalousos, D (mentor) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Programme Biomedical Engineering Date 2021-07-05 Abstract The Recurrent Inference Machine (RIM) has been developed as an alternative to the clinically used Compressed Sensing (CS) algorithm, using Deep Learning (DL). A common issue with DL networks is the generalization of the network to features that have not been trained for. In this study we evaluate the robustness of the RIM to white matter lesions in FLuid Attenuated Inversion Recovery (FLAIR) brain MRI data. We are evaluating two pre-trained RIM networks, one trained on T1 brain data and another trained on T2 knee data. This evaluation was done by comparing the two networks to CS in terms of the average relative Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) and Contrast Resolution (CR) that is achieved on 15 datasets acquired from Multiple Sclerosis patients. From these comparisons it shows that the network trained on T2 knee data performs similar to CS in terms of the relative SNR, while having a higher CR. The network trained on T1 brain data has both a lower relative SNR and CR, compared to CS. The data suggest that the RIM trained on T2 knee data is robust to the inclusion of lesions in an area that the network was not trained on. Subject MRIMultiple sclerosisRIMdeep learningcompressed sensingFLAIRMS patient To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:97f9bac3-4741-4150-bdb4-c0e1ed1a67cb Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights © 2021 Kevin Pancras Files PDF Thesis_Kevin_Pancras_Final.pdf 6.87 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:97f9bac3-4741-4150-bdb4-c0e1ed1a67cb/datastream/OBJ/view