Patent ID: 11948676
Assignee: THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  A | IPC A  G

Claim 7:
8. A method for quantitative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) comprising: performing an MRI scan using a conventional pulse sequence to obtain a qualitative MR image; and applying the qualitative MR image as input to a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) to produce a quantitative magnetic resonance (MR) relaxation parametric map; wherein the qualitative MR image is the only image input to the deep neural network to produce the quantitative MR relaxation parametric map; wherein the deep neural network includes shortcut connections, where pointwise addition is used, where nonlinear activation is applied before the pointwise addition and identity mapping is conducted after the pointwise addition.