Repository logo

Infoscience

  • English
  • French
Log In
Logo EPFL, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne

Infoscience

  • English
  • French
Log In
  1. Home
  2. Academic and Research Output
  3. Conferences, Workshops, Symposiums, and Seminars
  4. Assessing Data Quality on Fetal Brain MRI Reconstruction: A Multi-site and Multi-rater Study
 
conference paper

Assessing Data Quality on Fetal Brain MRI Reconstruction: A Multi-site and Multi-rater Study

Sanchez, Thomas  
•
Mihailov, Angeline
•
Gomez, Yvan
Show more
Link-Sourani, Daphna
•
Abaci Turk, Esra
Show more
2025
Perinatal, Preterm and Paediatric Image Analysis - 9th International Workshop, PIPPI 2024, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2024, Proceedings
9th International Workshop on Perinatal, Preterm and Paediatric Image Analysis

Quality assessment (QA) has long been considered essential to guarantee the reliability of neuroimaging studies. It is particularly important for fetal brain MRI, where unpredictable fetal motion can lead to substantial artifacts in the acquired images. Multiple images are then combined into a single volume through super-resolution reconstruction (SRR) pipelines, a step that can also introduce additional artifacts. While multiple studies designed automated quality control pipelines, no work evaluated the reproducibility of the manual quality ratings used to train these pipelines. In this work, our objective is twofold. First, we assess the inter- and intra-rater variability of the quality scoring performed by three experts on over 100 SRR images reconstructed using three different SRR pipelines. The raters were asked to assess the quality of images following 8 specific criteria like blurring or tissue contrast, providing a multi-dimensional view on image quality. We show that, using a protocol and training sessions, artifacts like bias field and blur level still have a low agreement (ICC below 0.5), while global quality scores show very high agreement (ICC=0.9) across raters. We also observe that the SRR methods are influenced differently by factors like gestational age, input data quality and number of stacks used by reconstruction. Finally, our quality scores allow us to unveil systematic weaknesses of the different pipelines, indicating how further development could lead to more robust, well rounded SRR methods.

  • Details
  • Metrics
Type
conference paper
DOI
10.1007/978-3-031-73260-7_5
Scopus ID

2-s2.0-85207640412

Author(s)
Sanchez, Thomas  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Mihailov, Angeline

Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone

Gomez, Yvan

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois

Juan, Gerard Martí

Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona

Eixarch, Elisenda

Universitat de Barcelona

Jakab, András

Kinderspital Zürich

Dunet, Vincent

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois

Koob, Mériam

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois

Auzias, Guillaume

Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone

Cuadra, Meritxell Bach  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Editors
Link-Sourani, Daphna
•
Abaci Turk, Esra
•
Macgowan, Christopher
•
Hutter, Jana
•
Melbourne, Andrew
•
Hutter, Jana
•
Licandro, Roxane
Date Issued

2025

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH

Published in
Perinatal, Preterm and Paediatric Image Analysis - 9th International Workshop, PIPPI 2024, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2024, Proceedings
Series title/Series vol.

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); 14747 LNCS

ISSN (of the series)

1611-3349

0302-9743

Start page

46

End page

56

Subjects

Fetal brain

•

MRI

•

Quality assessment

•

Reproducibility

•

Super-resolution reconstruction

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

Written at

EPFL

EPFL units
LTS5  
Event nameEvent acronymEvent placeEvent date
9th International Workshop on Perinatal, Preterm and Paediatric Image Analysis

Marrakesh, Morocco

2024-10-06 - 2024-10-06

Available on Infoscience
January 26, 2025
Use this identifier to reference this record
https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/245008
Logo EPFL, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
  • Contact
  • infoscience@epfl.ch

  • Follow us on Facebook
  • Follow us on Instagram
  • Follow us on LinkedIn
  • Follow us on X
  • Follow us on Youtube
AccessibilityLegal noticePrivacy policyCookie settingsEnd User AgreementGet helpFeedback

Infoscience is a service managed and provided by the Library and IT Services of EPFL. © EPFL, tous droits réservés