Adaptive fixed-point iterative shrinkage/thresholding algorithm for MR imaging reconstruction using compressed sensing

Abstract

Recently compressed sensing (CS) has been applied to under-sampling MR image reconstruction for significantly reducing signal acquisition time. To guarantee the accuracy and efficiency of the CS-based MR image reconstruction, it necessitates determining several regularization and algorithm-introduced parameters properly in practical implementations. The regularization parameter is used to control the trade-off between the sparsity of MR image and the fidelity measures of k-space data, and thus has an important effect on the reconstructed image quality. The algorithm-introduced parameters determine the global convergence rate of the algorithm itself. These parameters make CS-based MR image reconstruction a more difficult scheme than traditional Fourier-based method while implemented on a clinical MR scanner. In this paper, we propose a new approach that reveals that the regularization parameter can be taken as a threshold in a fixed-point iterative shrinkage/thresholding algorithm (FPIST) and chosen by employing minimax threshold selection method. No extra parameter is introduced by FPIST. The simulation results on synthetic and real complex-valued MRI data show that the proposed method can adaptively choose the regularization parameter and effectively achieve high reconstruction quality. The proposed method should prove very useful for practical CS-based MRI applications.

Keywords: Compressed sensing; Magnetic resonance imaging; Non-linear reconstruction; Regularization parameter.