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    • Medical Imaging
    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Radiology

    Background:

    • Gadolinium-based contrast agents (GBCAs) enhance brain MRI visualization but raise safety concerns due to gadolinium deposition.
    • There is a clinical need for methods that reduce or eliminate GBCA exposure while maintaining diagnostic image quality.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To develop a deep learning-based approach for synthesizing contrast-enhanced T1-weighted (T1) MRI sequences.
    • To investigate the potential of this method to replace conventional GBCA-enhanced imaging in brain tumor patients.

    Main Methods:

    • A 3D high-resolution fully convolutional network (FCN) was designed to map pre-contrast MRI sequences (T1, T2, ADC) to post-contrast T1 sequences.
    • A local loss function was introduced to improve the model's performance in tumor regions by addressing data imbalance.

    Main Results:

    • The deep learning model achieved a Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio (PSNR) of 28.24 dB in brain regions and 21.2 dB in tumor regions.
    • Quantitative and visual assessments confirmed the model's effectiveness in generating synthetic contrast-enhanced images.

    Conclusions:

    • Deep learning-based synthesis of contrast-enhanced MRI shows promise as a method to substitute GBCAs.
    • This approach could significantly reduce patient exposure to gadolinium, enhancing the safety of brain MRI procedures.