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Abstract #0375

Deep learning enables robust quantification of cerebral blood flow using ASL in the presence of pathology: Application to treated gliomas

Zhuoqin Yang1, James Ruffle2, H Rolf Jäger 2,3, Parashkev Nachev2, Harpreet Hyare2,3, Magdalena Sokolska2,4, and Hui Zhang1
1Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, United Kingdom, 2Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, United Kingdom, 3Imaging, University College London Hospitals, London, United Kingdom, 4Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, University College London Hospitals, London, United Kingdom

Synopsis

Keywords: Tumors (Post-Treatment), Arterial spin labelling, Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence, Tumor

Motivation: The accuracy of cerebral blood flow (CBF) quantification in arterial spin labelling (ASL) may reduce in regions exhibiting pathology-induced signal abnormalities in proton density (PD) images.

Goal(s): To develop an algorithm for improved CBF quantification by correcting signal abnormalities in PD images due to pathology.

Approach: To correct signal abnormalities, an image-inpainting algorithm based on deep learning (DL) was developed using healthy subject data. The algorithm was demonstrated with an application to patients post tumour treatment.

Results: The developed DL algorithm was able to effectively correct signal abnormalities, resulting in improved CBF maps.

Impact: The improvement in CBF accuracy through DL-corrected PD images may aid clinicians in their assessment of patients. This study demonstrates the potential benefit of the proposed method in an example application of monitoring tumour recurrence post treatment with ASL.

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