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Automatic Quality Control in Multi-centric Fetal Brain MRI Super-Resolution Reconstruction

Sanchez, Thomas  
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Zalevskyi, Vladyslav  
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Mihailov, Angeline
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Link-Sourani, Daphna
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Abaci Turk, Esra
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2026
Perinatal, Preterm and Paediatric Image Analysis. 10th International Workshop, PIPPI 2025, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2025, Daejeon, South Korea, September 27, 2025, Proceedings
10th International Workshop on Preterm, Perinatal and Paediatric Image Analysis

Quality control (QC) has long been considered essential to guarantee the reliability of neuroimaging studies. It is particularly important for fetal brain MRI, where acquisitions and image processing techniques are less standardized than in adult imaging. In this work, we focus on automated quality control of super-resolution reconstruction (SRR) volumes of fetal brain MRI, an important processing step where multiple stacks of thick 2D slices are registered together and combined to build a single, isotropic and artifact-free T2 weighted volume. We propose FetMRQCSR, a machine-learning method that extracts more than 100 image quality metrics to predict image quality scores using a random forest model. This approach is well suited to a problem that is high dimensional, with highly heterogeneous data and small datasets. We validate FetMRQCSRin an out-of-domain (OOD) setting and report high performance (ROC AUC = 0.89), even when faced with data from an unknown site or SRR method. We also investigate failure cases and show that they occur in 45% of the images due to ambiguous configurations for which the rating from the expert is arguable. These results are encouraging and illustrate how a non deep learning-based method like FetMRQCSRis well suited to this multifaceted problem. Our tool, along with all the code used to generate, train and evaluate the model are available at https://github.com/Medical-Image-Analysis-Laboratory/fetmrqc_sr.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1007/978-3-032-05997-0_1
Scopus ID

2-s2.0-105018302549

Author(s)
Sanchez, Thomas  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Zalevskyi, Vladyslav  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Mihailov, Angeline

Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone

Martí Juan, Gerard

Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona

Eixarch, Elisenda

Universitat de Barcelona

Jakab, Andras

Kinderspital Zürich

Dunet, Vincent

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois

Koob, Mériam

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois

Auzias, Guillaume

Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone

Bach Cuadra, Meritxell  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Editors
Link-Sourani, Daphna
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Abaci Turk, Esra
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Bastiaansen, Wietske
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Hutter, Jana
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Melbourne, Andrew
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Licandro, Roxane
Date Issued

2026

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH

Published in
Perinatal, Preterm and Paediatric Image Analysis. 10th International Workshop, PIPPI 2025, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2025, Daejeon, South Korea, September 27, 2025, Proceedings
DOI of the book
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-05997-0
ISBN of the book

978-3-032-05996-3

978-3-032-05997-0

Series title/Series vol.

Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 16118 LNCS

ISSN (of the series)

1611-3349

0302-9743

Start page

3

End page

14

Subjects

Fetal brain MRI

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Quality control

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Super-resolution reconstruction

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REVIEWED

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Event nameEvent acronymEvent placeEvent date
10th International Workshop on Preterm, Perinatal and Paediatric Image Analysis

Daejeon, Korea, Republic of

2025-09-27 - 2025-09-27

FunderFunding(s)Grant NumberGrant URL

UNIL

UNIGE

CHUV

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October 20, 2025
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/255104
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