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Prostate cancer is a leading cause of mortality in men, yet interpretation of T2-weighted prostate MRI remains challenging due to subtle and heterogeneous lesions. We developed an interpretable framework for automatic cancer detection using…

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In MRI, deep neural networks have been proposed to reconstruct diffusion model parameters. However, the inputs of the networks were designed for a specific diffusion gradient scheme (i.e., diffusion gradient directions and numbers) and a…

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