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RADIOLOGY-ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
卷 2, 期 5, 页码 -出版社
RADIOLOGICAL SOC NORTH AMERICA (RSNA)
DOI: 10.1148/ryai.2020200007
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- NIH/NCI Cancer Center support grant [P30 CA008748]
Purpose: To investigate the feasibility of accelerating prostate diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) by reducing the number of acquired averages and denoising the resulting image using a proposed guided denoising convolutional neural network (DnCNN). Materials and Methods: Raw data from the prostate DWI scans were retrospectively gathered between July 2018 and July 2019 from six single-vendor MRI scanners. There were 103 datasets used for training (median age, 64 years; interquartile range [IQR], 11), 15 for validation (median age, 68 years; IQR, 12), and 37 for testing (median age, 64 years; IQR, 12). High b-value diffusion-weighted (hb DW) data were reconstructed into noisy images using two averages and reference images using all 16 averages. A conventional DnCNN was modified into a guided DnCNN, which uses the low b-value DW image as a guidance input. Quantitative and qualitative reader evaluations were performed on the denoised hb DW images. A cumulative link mixed regression model was used to compare the readers' scores. The agreement between the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) maps (denoised vs reference) was analyzed using Bland-Altman analysis. Results: Compared with the original DnCNN, the guided DnCNN produced denoised hb DW images with higher peak signal-tonoise ratio (32.79 +/- 3.64 [standard deviation] vs 33.74 +/- 3.64), higher structural similarity index (0.92 +/- 0.05 vs 0.93 +/- 0.04), and lower normalized mean square error (3.9% +/- 10 vs 1.6% 6 1.5) (P<.001 for all). Compared with the reference images, the denoised images received higher image quality scores from the readers (P<.0001). The ADC values based on the denoised hb DW images were in good agreement with the reference ADC values (mean ADC difference ranged from 20.04 to 0.02 x 10(-3) mm(2)/sec). Conclusion: Accelerating prostate DWI by reducing the number of acquired averages and denoising the resulting image using the proposed guided DnCNN is technically feasible. (C) RSNA, 2020
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