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Personalized liver lesion detection in follow-up exams

Project
17021 IMPACT
Type
New standard
Description
  • Automatic detection of liver lesions in follow-up MR scan(s), for better monitoring of disease progress and treatment response.
  • Improved performance by inclusion of patient-specific image data (a fine-tuning training step of a deep learning network based on prior patient data).
Contact
Josien Pluim
Email
j.pluim@umcutrecht.nl
Technical features

Input(s):

  • Dynamic contrastenhanced MR sequence of liver.
  • Diffusion-weighted MR.
  • Both acquired at min. two time points.

Main feature(s):

  • Automatic detection of liver lesions in follow-up scan(s).
  • Improved performance by inclusion of patient-specific image data.

Output(s):

  • Accurate, automatic annotations of lesions in liver MRI.
Integration constraints

Stand-alone package.

Targeted customer(s)
  • Medical imaging researcher.
  • Radiologist.
Conditions for reuse

Code is research SW and can be made available upon request.

Confidentiality
Public
Publication date
12-09-2021
Involved partners
Utrecht University (NLD)