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Abstract #1769

Improved lesion conspicuity on liver ADC maps using self supervised DDPMs

Serge Vasylechko1, Andy Tsai1, Onur Afacan1, and Sila Kurugol1
1Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States

Synopsis

Keywords: AI Diffusion Models, Liver

Motivation: Abdominal DW-MRI suffers from low SNR and motion artifacts, compromising ADC reliability.

Goal(s): Improve ADC estimation in low SNR abdominal DW-MRI using a single-image acquisition per b-value.

Approach: A novel self-supervised training approach using denoising diffusion probabilistic models (ssDDPM). Tailored for multi-b-value DW-MRI images, it requires only a single gradient image per b-value for denoising, which reduces scan time.

Results: ssDDPM demonstrated superior lesion conspicuity in low b-value images and quantitative ADC maps in comparison to competing methods. In lesion versus normal tissue, a logistic classifier had improved sensitivity from 0.93 to 0.98, and specificity from 0.88 to 0.97, over non-denoised NEX1 images.

Impact: ssDDPM enhances abdominal DW-MRI ADC accuracy from single acquisitions, reducing scan times and patient discomfort. This gives promise to an earlier, precise tumor detection and monitoring, impacting clinical care and healthcare efficiency.

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