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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…

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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…

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Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is instrumental in clinical diagnosis, offering diverse contrasts that provide comprehensive diagnostic information. However, acquiring multiple MRI contrasts is often constrained by high costs, long…

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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…

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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is the most sensitive technique for breast cancer detection among current clinical imaging modalities. Contrast-enhanced MRI (CE-MRI) provides superior differentiation between tumors and invaded healthy…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-04 Tianyu Zhang , Luyi Han , Anna D'Angelo , Xin Wang , Yuan Gao , Chunyao Lu , Jonas Teuwen , Regina Beets-Tan , Tao Tan , Ritse Mann

Dynamic Contrast Enhanced-Magnetic Resonance Imaging (DCE-MRI) is widely used to complement ultrasound examinations and x-ray mammography during the early detection and diagnosis of breast cancer. However, images generated by various MRI…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-18 Gourav Modanwal , Adithya Vellal , Maciej A. Mazurowski

Image enhancement improves visual quality and helps reveal details that are hard to see in the original image. In medical imaging, it can support clinical decision-making, but current models often over-edit. This can distort organs, create…

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…

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Despite significant progress in generative modelling, existing diffusion models often struggle to produce anatomically precise female pelvic images, limiting their application in gynaecological imaging, where data scarcity and patient…

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Multi-contrast MRI acquisitions of an anatomy enrich the magnitude of information available for diagnosis. Yet, excessive scan times associated with additional contrasts may be a limiting factor. Two mainstream approaches for enhanced scan…

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Acquiring images of the same anatomy with multiple different contrasts increases the diversity of diagnostic information available in an MR exam. Yet, scan time limitations may prohibit acquisition of certain contrasts, and images for some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Salman Ul Hassan Dar , Mahmut Yurt , Levent Karacan , Aykut Erdem , Erkut Erdem , Tolga Çukur

Synthesizing high-quality images from low-field MRI holds significant potential. Low-field MRI is cheaper, more accessible, and safer, but suffers from low resolution and poor signal-to-noise ratio. This synthesis process can reduce…

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Breast cancer was diagnosed for over 7.8 million women between 2015 to 2020. Grading plays a vital role in breast cancer treatment planning. However, the current tumor grading method involves extracting tissue from patients, leading to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-14 Chi-en Amy Tai , Alexander Wong

Contrast agents in dynamic contrast enhanced magnetic resonance imaging allow to localize tumors and observe their contrast kinetics, which is essential for cancer characterization and respective treatment decision-making. However, contrast…

Multi contrast MRI synthesis is inherently challenging due to the complex and nonlinear relationships among different contrasts. Each MRI contrast highlights unique tissue properties, but their complementary information is difficult to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-23 Sanuwani Dayarathna , Himashi Peiris , Kh Tohidul Islam , Tien-Tsin Wong , Zhaolin Chen

Functional behavior of breast cancer - representing underlying biology - can be analyzed using MRI. The most widely used breast MR imaging protocol is dynamic contrast-enhanced T1-weighted imaging. The cancer enhances on dynamic…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-09-17 Bas H. M. van der Velden

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is highly sensitive for lesion detection in the breasts. Sequences obtained with different settings can capture the specific characteristics of lesions. Such multi-parameter MRI information has been shown to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-06 Tianyu Zhang , Tao Tan , Luyi Han , Xin Wang , Yuan Gao , Jonas Teuwen , Regina Beets-Tan , Ritse Mann

Computer-aided detection systems based on deep learning have shown good performance in breast cancer detection. However, high-density breasts show poorer detection performance since dense tissues can mask or even simulate masses. Therefore,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-25 Lidia Garrucho , Kaisar Kushibar , Richard Osuala , Oliver Diaz , Alessandro Catanese , Javier del Riego , Maciej Bobowicz , Fredrik Strand , Laura Igual , Karim Lekadir

Background: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has high sensitivity for breast cancer detection, but interpretation is time-consuming. Artificial intelligence may aid in pre-screening. Purpose: To evaluate the DINOv2-based Medical Slice…

Low-field to high-field MRI synthesis has emerged as a cost-effective strategy to enhance image quality under hardware and acquisition constraints, particularly in scenarios where access to high-field scanners is limited or impractical.…

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