A Physics-informed Conditional Wasserstein Autoencoder to Quantify Uncertainties in Accelerated 2D Dynamic Radial MRI

Uncertainty quantification (UQ) can provide important information about deep learning algorithms and help interpret the obtained results. UQ for multi-coil dynamic MRI is challenging due to the large scale of the problem and scarce training data. We approach these issues by learning distributions in a lower dimensional latent space using a conditional Wasserstein autoencoder while utilizing the MR data acquisition model and by exploiting spatio-temporal correlations of the cine MR images. Our results indicate excellent image quality accompanied with uncertainty maps that correlate well with estimation errors.