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Area of Science:

  • Medical Imaging
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Radiology

Background:

  • Reducing gadolinium-based contrast agents is crucial for cost, environmental, and patient safety reasons.
  • Published methods for synthesizing contrast-enhanced images have not been comparatively evaluated.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To compare deep learning methods for synthesizing artificial T1-weighted full-dose MRI images from noncontrast and low-dose images.
  • To evaluate a proposed contrast signal extraction method against existing state-of-the-art techniques.

Main Methods:

  • A prospective study involving 213 participants undergoing brain MRI with low-dose (0.02 mmol/kg) and full-dose (0.1 mmol/kg) contrast.
  • Two deep learning methods (Settings A & B) and a proposed method (Setting C) were reimplemented.
  • Artificial and true full-dose images were compared by two readers assessing lesion interchangeability, enhancement, and conformity.

Main Results:

  • The proposed method (Setting C) demonstrated significantly higher interchangeability (70/100 scans) compared to Settings A (40/100) and B (57/100).
  • Setting C produced the smallest mean enhancement reduction in lesions (-0.50 ± 0.55) versus true images.
  • Conformity scores for lesions were highest with Setting C (2.48 ± 0.91) compared to A (1.75 ± 1.07) and B (2.19 ± 1.04).

Conclusions:

  • The proposed contrast signal extraction method significantly improves the synthesis of postcontrast MRI images.
  • Despite improvements, a notable proportion of synthesized images still show inadequate interchangeability with reference true-dose images.