Deep Learning Speeds MRI Scans

Machine intelligence significantly reduces the time needed for an magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan, which can help reduce patient anxiety. Facebook, the Palo Alto, CA-based online social network, has teamed up with radiologists at New York University’s Langone Medical Center in Manhattan to develop an artificial intelligence (AI)-based imaging accelerator for MRI scanners. Facebook and NYU Langone have developed a deep learning neural network (DNN) that allows MRI scans to be performed many times faster. Called FastMRI, the DNN, has been trained to generate MRI images using far less magnetic resonance data than before and that sparse data requirement significantly accelerates the scan time.