Denoising for deuterium magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging based on posterior-score-guided subspace modeling

Deuterium magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (DMRSI) has recently been recognized as a powerful tool for imaging the energy metabolism and tumors of the brain. However, the low sensitivity of DMRSI has primarily limited its practical utility in research and clinical studies. In this work, we present a novel approach to improving the sensitivity of DMRSI, incorporating both physics-based subspace modeling and data-driven distribution learning to remove measurement noise. Particularly, a union-of-subspaces model is used to represent the spatial-spectral-temporal variations of the desired DMRSI signal, leading to a significant reduction in degrees of freedom. The subspace structures are pre-learned from spin physics and training data, incorporating known resonance structures and a priori experimental variations. The subspace coefficients are treated as random variables, whose joint probabilistic distributions are learned using an advanced diffusion model. With the proposed subspace model and learned signal priors, denoising is accomplished using the Langevin dynamics process. The proposed method has been evaluated using both simulated and experimental data, producing very promising results. The resulting algorithm is expected to enhance the practical utility of DMRSI and could also be useful for denoising MRSI of other nuclei. In this thesis, background materials on subspace modeling of MRSI signals, Bayesian parameter estimation theory and diffusion generative models will be first presented. Then, a detailed description of the proposed denoising algorithm is provided. Finally, simulation and in vivo evaluation results are presented to demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed method for dynamic DMRSI denoising.

Name thesis:degree_name

M.S.

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Electrical & Computer Engr

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2023

Author dc:creator

• Xu, Ziyang

Contributors dc:contributor

• Liang, Zhi-Pei

• Deuterium Magnetic Spectroscopic Imaging
• Denoising
• Score-based Diffusion Model
• Posterior Sampling
• Machine Learning

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 2023 Ziyang Xu

Language dc:language

en, eng

Handle dc:identifier

https://hdl.handle.net/2142/122083

OAI record oai:identifier

https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/oai-pmh?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=etdms&identifier=oai%3Awww.ideals.illinois.edu%3A2142%2F122083