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Batuhan Gundogdu^1,2, Aritrick Chatterjee^1,2, Milica Medved^1,2

¹Department of Radiology, University of Chicago, 5801 S Ellis Ave, Chicago, IL 60637.

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Physics-Informed Autoencoder (PIA), a deep learning model, accurately measures prostate cancer biomarkers from MRI, outperforming traditional methods in speed and noise resistance. This AI approach offers a faster, more robust tool for PCa detection.

Keywords:

MR–Diffusion-weighted Imaging Prostate Stacked Auto-Encoders Tissue Characterization

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Area of Science:

Radiology and Medical Imaging
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Biomarker Discovery

Background:

Prostate cancer (PCa) diagnosis relies on accurate tissue biomarker measurement.
Traditional methods like nonlinear least squares (NLLS) can be slow and sensitive to noise.
Hybrid multidimensional MRI offers rich data for tissue characterization.

Purpose of the Study:

To evaluate the performance of Physics-Informed Autoencoder (PIA), a self-supervised deep learning model, for measuring prostate tissue biomarkers using hybrid multidimensional MRI.
To compare PIA's accuracy, robustness to noise, and computational efficiency against the traditional NLLS algorithm.
To assess PIA's potential as an AI tool for noninvasive PCa detection.

Main Methods:

Developed PIA by integrating a three-compartment diffusion-relaxation model with a deep neural network.
Trained PIA to predict tissue-specific biomarkers for PCa from MRI data.
Validated PIA using in silico experiments with varying signal-to-noise ratios (SNR) and in vivo data from 21 PCa patients, comparing against histopathology and NLLS.

Main Results:

PIA demonstrated high accuracy in predicting reference standard tissue parameters, outperforming NLLS, especially under noisy conditions (epithelium volume at SNR 20:1: r_s = 0.80 vs 0.65).
In vivo, PIA's noninvasive volume fraction estimates strongly correlated with quantitative histology (ICC: 0.94 for epithelium, 0.85 for stroma, 0.92 for lumen).
PIA measurements correlated with PCa aggressiveness (r = 0.75) and was significantly faster than NLLS (0.18 seconds vs 40 minutes per image).

Conclusions:

PIA provides accurate prostate tissue biomarker measurements from MRI with superior robustness to noise and computational efficiency compared to NLLS.
PIA shows potential as an accurate, noninvasive, and explainable artificial intelligence method for PCa detection.
This deep learning approach advances the use of AI in quantitative MRI for cancer diagnostics.