A Generalized Two-Level Bregman Method with Dictionary Updating for Non-Convex Magnetic Resonance Imaging Reconstruction

In recent years, it has shown that a generalized thresholding algorithm is useful for inverse problems with sparsity constraints. The generalized thresholding minimizes the non-convex p-norm based function with p < 1, and it penalizes small coefficients over a wider range meanwhile applies less bias to the larger coefficients.In this work, on the basis of two-level Bregman method with dictionary updating(TBMDU), we use the modified thresholding to minimize the non-convex function and propose the generalized TBMDU(GTBMDU) algorithm.The experimental results on magnetic resonance(MR) image simulations and real MR data, under a variety of sampling trajectories and acceleration factors, consistently demonstrate that the proposed algorithm can efficiently reconstruct the MR images and present advantages over the previous soft thresholding approaches.