2025/06/06 by Kun Wang, Tobit Klug, Wang, Kun +7
Medicine · Neuroscience · Engineering · #Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications #Functional Brain Connectivity Studies #Sparse and Compressive Sensing Techniques
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2506.05975
Correcting motion artifacts in MRI is important, as they can hinder accurate diagnosis. However, evaluating deep learning-based and classical motion correction methods remains fundamentally difficult due to the lack of accessible ground-truth target data. To address this challenge, we study three evaluation approaches: real-world evaluation based on reference scans, simulated motion, and reference-free evaluation, each with its merits and shortcomings. To enable evaluation with real-world motion artifacts, we release PMoC3D, a dataset consisting of unprocessed Paired Motion-Corrupted 3D brain MRI data. To advance evaluation quality, we introduce MoMRISim, a feature-space metric trained for evaluating motion reconstructions. We assess each evaluation approach and find real-world evaluation together with MoMRISim, while not perfect, to be most reliable. Evaluation based on simulated motion systematically exaggerates algorithm performance, and reference-free evaluation overrates oversmoothed deep learning outputs.