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Abstract #0306

Improving the performance of non-enhanced MR for predicting the grade of hepatocellular carcinoma by transfer learning

Wu Zhou1, Wanwei Jian1, and Guangyi Wang2
1School of Medical Information Engineering, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China, 2Department of Radiology, Guangdong General Hospital, Guangzhou, China

Contrast agent has several limitations in clinical practice, and the diagnostic performance of non-enhanced MR for lesion characterization should be thoroughly exploited. Inspired by the work of cross-modal learning framework,we propose a deeply supervised cross-modal transfer learning method to remarkably improve the malignancy characterization of HCC in non-enhanced MR, in which the cross-modal relationship between the non-enhanced modal and contrast-enhanced modal is explicitly learned and subsequently transferred to another CNN model for improving the characterization performance of non-enhanced MR. The visualization method Grad-CAM is also applied to verify the effectiveness of the proposed cross-modal transfer learning model.

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