Surface-based analysis of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data of the brain plays an important role in clinical and research applications. To achieve accurate three-dimensional (3D) surface reconstruction, high-resolution (HR) MR image acquisition is needed. However, HR image acquisition is hindered by hardware limitations that result in long acquisition time and low spatial coverage. Single image super-resolution (SISR) can alleviate these problems by converting a low-resolution (LR) image to an HR image. However, unlike 2D SISR methods, conventional 3D methods incur a large computational cost and require abundant data. Further, 3D boundaries for surface reconstruction based on MR images have not been sufficiently investigated. We herein propose a cost-efficient novel regression-based framework for full 3D super-resolution imaging that directly analyzes 3D features by introducing a tensor using gradient information. We initially cluster features using tensors to create labels for both the training and testing stages. In the training stage, for each label, we collect LR patches and corresponding HR intensities to compute filters. In the testing stage, for each voxel, we construct a tensor to obtain a feature and predict the HR intensity using trained filters. We also propose a patch span reduction method by limiting patch orientation to reduce the orientation span and increase shape variety. Using only 30 masked T1-weighted brain MR volumes from the Human Connectome Project (HCP) 900 dataset, the proposed algorithm exhibited superior performance in terms of HR boundary recovery in the cerebral cortex as well as improved overall quality compared to conventional methods.
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