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@ARTICLE{Liu:1026684,
author = {Liu, Xin and Rüttgers, Mario and Quercia, Alessio and
Egele, Romain and Pfaehler, Elisabeth and Shende, Rushikesh
and Aach, Marcel and Schröder, Wolfgang and Balaprakash,
Prasanna and Lintermann, Andreas},
title = {{R}efining computer tomography data with super-resolution
networks to increase the accuracy of respiratory flow
simulations},
journal = {Future generation computer systems},
volume = {159},
issn = {0167-739X},
address = {Amsterdam [u.a.]},
publisher = {Elsevier Science},
reportid = {FZJ-2024-03499},
pages = {474 - 488},
year = {2024},
abstract = {Accurately computing the flow in the nasal cavity with
computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations requires
highly resolved computational meshes based on anatomically
realistic geometries. Such geometries can only be obtained
from computer tomography (CT) data with high spatial
resolution, i.e., featuring a ≤ 1 mm slice thickness. In
practice, CT images are, however, recorded at a lower
resolution to not expose patients to high radiation and to
reduce the overall costs. To overcome this problem and to
provide patients with a detailed physics-based diagnosis,
e.g., for surgery planning, the potential of
super-resolution networks (SRNs) to increase the CT
resolution is analyzed. Therefore, an SRN is developed and
trained on CT data. Its predictive performance is improved
by an automated hyperparameter optimization technique. The
training time is further reduced without predictive accuracy
degradation by oversampling images with challenging regions.
The performance of the SRN is assessed by an analysis of the
reconstructed 3D surfaces of the human upper airway and by
comparing results of CFD simulations. That is, surfaces and
simulation results based on SRN-generated CT data at 1 mm
resolution are compared to those obtained from unmodified CT
data-sets at low (3 mm) and high (1 mm) resolution, as well
as from CT data interpolated to a 1 mm resolution from
coarse data. The findings reveal the SRN-based approach to
have the lowest deviations in the surfaces and CFD results
when compared to those based on the original high-resolution
data. The pressure loss between the inflow (nostrils) and
outflow (pharynx) regions averaged for three test patients
differs by only $1.3\%,$ compared to $8.7\%$ and $8.8\%$ in
the coarse and interpolated cases. It is concluded that the
SRN-based method is a promising tool to enhance
underresolved CT data to yield reliable numerical results of
respiratory flows.},
cin = {JSC / IAS-8 / INM-4},
ddc = {004},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)JSC-20090406 / I:(DE-Juel1)IAS-8-20210421 /
I:(DE-Juel1)INM-4-20090406},
pnm = {5112 - Cross-Domain Algorithms, Tools, Methods Labs (ATMLs)
and Research Groups (POF4-511) / RAISE - Research on AI- and
Simulation-Based Engineering at Exascale (951733) / JLESC -
Joint Laboratory for Extreme Scale Computing
(JLESC-20150708) / HDS LEE - Helmholtz School for Data
Science in Life, Earth and Energy (HDS LEE)
(HDS-LEE-20190612)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-5112 / G:(EU-Grant)951733 /
G:(DE-Juel1)JLESC-20150708 / G:(DE-Juel1)HDS-LEE-20190612},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:001249701400001},
doi = {10.1016/j.future.2024.05.020},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/1026684},
}