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Abstract #1951

Longitudinal oncology lesion tracking using self-supervised vision transformers.

Deepa Anand1, Gurunath Reddy M1, Dattesh D Shanbhag1, Sudhanya Chatterjee1, Aanchal Mongia1, Uday Patil1, and Rakesh Mullick1
1GE HealthCare, Bengaluru, India

Synopsis

Keywords: Diagnosis/Prediction, Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence, Foundation Model, Lesion Tracking, Longitudinal data

Motivation: Automate lesion(s) delineation across longitudinal time-points to improve throughput and accuracy, reduce fatigue and determine disease velocity

Goal(s): A method where user identifies an imaging lesion and wants to automatically label phenotypically similar imaging lesion on other scans .

Approach: Vision Foundation model (DINO V2) features to localize and segment similar region between template mask region and new test data to obtain segmentation of similar lesion(s).

Results: Reasonably well lesion segmentation capabilities on serial MRI scans in oncology patients with various MRI protocols, orientations and contrast. For Ferret diameter metric, a mean difference (95% CI) = -3.5 mm (-7.6 to 0.7 mm).

Impact: Ability to automatically delineate phenotypically similar lesions on serial imaging data with user interaction on first time point only. Methodology is generalizable irrespective of imaging orientation, contrast and without need for extensive data labelling or geometric synchronization on serial scans.

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