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Abstract #3017

A comparison of semi-automatic quality control methods for 3D-T1 weighted scans

Janine Hendriks1, Richard Joules2, Óscar Peña-Nogales3, Robin Wolz2,4, Paulo Rodrigez3, Frederik Barkhof1,5, Anouk Schrantee1, and Henk-Jan Mutsaerts1
1Radiology, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2IXICO Plc, London, United Kingdom, 3QMENTA, Barcelona, Spain, 4Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, 5University College London, London, United Kingdom

Synopsis

Keywords: Data Processing, Artifacts

Motivation: The implementation of QC in T1w MRI scans remains unstandardized and still involves human specialists, without consensus on a systematic approach to identify the presence of artifacts

Goal(s): Our goal was to compare the relative performance of three algorithms with visual QC, and compare their capabilities in detecting simulated blurring, ghosting, and noise artifacts on a new unseen dataset.

Approach: Synthetic artifacts were introduced into MRI scans that passed visual quality control, and thresholds were determined for CAT12 and LONIQC, and a classifier for MRIQC was trained.

Results: MRIQC outperformed CAT12 and LONIQC in detecting both real artifacts as well as simulated artifacts.

Impact: Substantial differences in the performance of different automatic quality control algorithms were shown when compared to visual QC and on simulated data. This suggests that better evaluation of the relation between artifact type, input features and classification methods is needed.

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