Robust High-Resolution Multi-Organ Diffusion MRI Using Synthetic-Data-Tuned Prompt Learning

Qian, Chen, Zhang, Haoyu, Ma, Junnan, Zhu, Liuhong, Cai, Qingrui, Wang, Yu, Song, Ruibo, Li, Lv, Mei, Lin, Jiang, Xianwang, Xu, Qin, Jiang, Boyu, Tao, Ran, Chen, Chunmiao, Chen, Shufang, Liang, Dongyun, Guo, Qiu, Lin, Jianzhong, Kang, Taishan, Lu, Mengtian, Fu, Liyuan, Huang, Ruibin, Wan, Huijuan, Huang, Xu, Wang, Jianhua, Guo, Di, Zhong, Hai, Zhou, Jianjun, Qu, Xiaobo

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence 

A b stract: Clinical adoption of multi - shot diffusion - weighted magnetic resonance imaging ( multi - shot DWI) for body - wide tumor diagnostics is limited by severe motion - induced phase artifacts from respiration, peristalsis, and so on, compounded by multi - organ, multi - sl ice, multi - direction and multi - b - value complexities. Here, we introduce a reconstruction framework, LoSP - Prompt, that overcomes these challenges through physics - informed modeling and synthetic - data - driven prompt learning. We model int er - shot phase variations as a high - order Locally Smooth Phase (LoSP), integrated into a low - rank Hankel matrix reconstruction. Crucially, the algorithm's rank parameter is automat ically set via prompt learning trained exclusively on synthetic abdominal DWI data emulatin g physiological motion. The approach eliminates navigator signals and real istic data supervision, providing an interpretable, robust solution for high - resolution multi - organ multi - shot DWI. Ho wever, the ms - iEPI DWI is very sensitive to the inter - shot motion during the data acquisition of each shot ( Figure 1(a - d)) . E ven s light movement on the millimeter scale will cause the significant extra inter - shot phase (motion - induced phase in Fig . All t hese methods can successfully remove image artifacts in brain imaging ( F ig. 1 ( h)), g reatly promot ing applications of multi - shot high - resolution DWI . For the a bdominal tumor diagnosis, such as liver and kidney, ms - iEPI DWI has not been applied well ( F ig. 1 ( l)) . The se movement s bring organ - specific and high - order motion - induced phase s ( Figure 1 ( i, j)), which do not conform to the smooth phase prior assumption made in multi - shot DWI brain imaging .