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Dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE- MRI) is a widely used multi-phase technique routinely used in clinical practice. DCE and similar datasets of dynamic medical data tend to contain redundant information on the…

Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging (DCE-MRI) is a valuable tool to localize, characterize, and evaluate anomalous prostate tissue. Ultrafast gradient-echo acquisitions of MRI volumes are generated at regular time intervals…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 Wuilian Torres , Leonardo Cordero , Miguel Martín-Landrove , Antonio Rueda-Toicen

Despite its benefits for tumour detection and treatment, the administration of contrast agents in dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI (DCE-MRI) is associated with a range of issues, including their invasiveness, bioaccumulation, and a risk of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-03 Richard Osuala , Smriti Joshi , Apostolia Tsirikoglou , Lidia Garrucho , Walter H. L. Pinaya , Oliver Diaz , Karim Lekadir

Dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI) plays an important role in breast cancer screening, tumor assessment, and treatment planning and monitoring. The dynamic changes in contrast in different tissues help to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Rui Wang , Yuexi Du , John Lewin , R. Todd Constable , Nicha C. Dvornek

Dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI) is essential for breast cancer diagnosis due to its ability to characterize tissue through contrast agent kinetics. However, traditional DCE-MRI protocols require multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Ruben D. Fonnegra , Maria Liliana Hernández , Juan C. Caicedo , Gloria M. Díaz

Segmentation of bone regions allows for enhanced diagnostics, disease characterisation and treatment monitoring in CT imaging. In contrast enhanced whole-body scans accurate automatic segmentation is particularly difficult as low dose whole…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-08-14 Patrick Leydon , Martin O'Connell , Derek Greene , Kathleen M Curran

Non-mass enhancing lesions (NME) constitute a diagnostic challenge in dynamic contrast enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI) of the breast. Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD) systems provide physicians with advanced tools for analysis,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-09-27 Ignacio Alvarez Illan , Javier Ramirez , Juan M. Gorriz , Maria Adele Marino , Daly Avendaño , Thomas Helbich , Pascal Baltzer , Katja Pinker , Anke Meyer-Baese

Dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE) MRI is essential for breast cancer diagnosis and treatment. However, its reliance on contrast agents introduces safety concerns, contraindications, increased cost, and workflow complexity. To this end, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-16 Sebastian Ibarra , Javier del Riego , Alessandro Catanese , Julian Cuba , Julian Cardona , Nataly Leon , Jonathan Infante , Karim Lekadir , Oliver Diaz , Richard Osuala

Introduction: Quantification of dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE)-MRI has the potential to provide valuable clinical information, but robust pharmacokinetic modeling remains a challenge for clinical adoption. Methods: A 7-layer neural network…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-05-22 Ouri Cohen , Soudabeh Kargar , Sungmin Woo , Alberto Vargas , Ricardo Otazo

This paper presents a method for virtual contrast enhancement in breast MRI, offering a promising non-invasive alternative to traditional contrast agent-based DCE-MRI acquisition. Using a conditional generative adversarial network, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-15 Richard Osuala , Smriti Joshi , Apostolia Tsirikoglou , Lidia Garrucho , Walter H. L. Pinaya , Daniel M. Lang , Julia A. Schnabel , Oliver Diaz , Karim Lekadir

Rectal tumour segmentation in dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI (DCE-MRI) is a challenging task, and an automated and consistent method would be highly desirable to improve the modelling and prediction of patient outcomes from tissue contrast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-19 Benjamin Irving , James M Franklin , Bartlomiej W Papiez , Ewan M Anderson , Ricky A Sharma , Fergus V Gleeson , Sir Michael Brady , Julia A Schnabel

Deep learning approaches to the segmentation of magnetic resonance images have shown significant promise in automating the quantitative analysis of brain images. However, a continuing challenge has been its sensitivity to the variability of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-05 Dzung L. Pham , Yi-Yu Chou , Blake E. Dewey , Daniel S. Reich , John A. Butman , Snehashis Roy

Most MRI liver segmentation methods use a structural 3D scan as input, such as a T1 or T2 weighted scan. Segmentation performance may be improved by utilizing both structural and functional information, as contained in dynamic contrast…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-23 Mariëlle J. A. Jansen , Hugo J. Kuijf , Josien P. W. Pluim

Dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI) plays an important role in diagnosis and grading of brain tumor. Although manual DCE biomarker extraction algorithms boost the diagnostic yield of DCE-MRI by providing…

Deep transfer learning using dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI) has shown strong predictive power in characterization of breast lesions. However, pretrained convolutional neural networks (CNNs) require 2D inputs,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-11-11 Qiyuan Hu , Heather M. Whitney , Maryellen L. Giger

Objective: To develop an automatic image normalization algorithm for intensity correction of images from breast dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI) acquired by different MRI scanners with various imaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-09 Jun Zhang , Ashirbani Saha , Brian J. Soher , Maciej A. Mazurowski

In this work we consider the image reconstruction problem of sparsely sampled dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). DCE-MRI is a technique for acquiring a series of MR images before, during and after intravenous…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-24 Kati Niinimäki , Matti Hanhela , Ville Kolehmainen

Breast dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI) plays an important role in the screening and prognosis assessment of high-risk breast cancer. The segmentation of cancerous regions is essential useful for the subsequent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-30 Yuming Zhong , Yi Wang

In our comprehensive experiments and evaluations, we show that it is possible to generate multiple contrast (even all synthetically) and use synthetically generated images to train an image segmentation engine. We showed promising…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-07 Ismail Irmakci , Zeki Emre Unel , Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis , Ulas Bagci

Hand-crafted features extracted from dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance images (DCE-MRIs) have shown strong predictive abilities in characterization of breast lesions. However, heterogeneity across medical image datasets hinders…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-01-17 Natalia Antropova , Benjamin Huynh , Maryellen Giger
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