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Abstract #2116

An automated end-to-end deep learning reconstruction and quantification workflow for fast quantitative DCE-MRI

Juntong Jing1, Anthony Mekhanik2, Victor Murray2, Ouri Cohen2, and Ricardo Otazo1,2,3
1Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, New York, NY, United States, 2Department of Medical Physics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, United States, 3Department of Radiology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, United States

Synopsis

Keywords: Analysis/Processing, Perfusion, Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence, Cancer

Motivation: Despite extensive research and promising initial results, quantitative dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE) MRI is marginal in clinical practice, due to lack of automation and low reproducibility.

Goal(s): Introduce an end-to-end deep learning approach for an automated and more reproducible DCE-MRI pipeline.

Approach: Two networks, one reconstructing undersampled k-t data via Movienet and the other estimating perfusion and MR parameters, were merged into a unified, automated pipeline. The approach was tested on a volunteer and a patient with cervical cancer.

Results: Automated processing yielded images in under 2 seconds, comparable in quality to GRASP and providing multiparametric mapping of perfusion and MR from one acquisition.

Impact: The proposed fast automated data processing pipeline including deep learning reconstruction and quantification can be an important clinical tool to exploit the information from DCE-MRI to improve tumor diagnosis and treatment response evaluation.

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