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ArticleMedical image analysis2022

Degenerative adversarial neuroimage nets for brain scan simulations: Application in ageing and dementia.

Daniele Ravi, Stefano B Blumberg, Silvia Ingala, Frederik Barkhof, Daniel C Alexander, Neil P Oxtoby, Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative

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Article in Medical image analysis, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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22 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors.

Daniele RaviCentre for Medical Image Computing (CMIC), Department of Computer Science, University College London, UK. Electronic address: d.ravi@ucl.ac.uk.
Stefano B BlumbergCentre for Medical Image Computing (CMIC), Department of Computer Science, University College London, UK.
Silvia IngalaDepartment of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Frederik BarkhofDepartment of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Insititutes of Neurology and Healthcare Engineering, University College London, London, UK.
Daniel C AlexanderCentre for Medical Image Computing (CMIC), Department of Computer Science, University College London, UK.
Neil P OxtobyCentre for Medical Image Computing (CMIC), Department of Computer Science, University College London, UK.
Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative

Funding

Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative - SupplementU01AG024904 · NIA · NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE RES &EDUC · PI WEINER, MICHAEL W · 2004 to 2015
$121.0M
Medical Research Council MR/S03546X/1NIA NIH HHS U01 AG024904
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Accurate and realistic simulation of high-dimensional medical images has become an important research area relevant to many AI-enabled healthcare applications. However, current state-of-the-art approaches lack the ability to produce satisfactory high-resolution and accurate subject-specific images. In this work, we present a deep learning framework, namely 4D-Degenerative Adversarial NeuroImage Net (4D-DANI-Net), to generate high-resolution, longitudinal MRI scans that mimic subject-specific neurodegeneration in ageing and dementia. 4D-DANI-Net is a modular framework based on adversarial training and a set of novel spatiotemporal, biologically-informed constraints. To ensure efficient training and overcome memory limitations affecting such high-dimensional problems, we rely on three key technological advances: i) a new 3D training consistency mechanism called Profile Weight Functions (PWFs), ii) a 3D super-resolution module and iii) a transfer learning strategy to fine-tune the system for a given individual. To evaluate our approach, we trained the framework on 9852 T1-weighted MRI scans from 876 participants in the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative dataset and held out a separate test set of 1283 MRI scans from 170 participants for quantitative and qualitative assessment of the personalised time series of synthetic images. We performed three evaluations: i) image quality assessment; ii) quantifying the accuracy of regional brain volumes over and above benchmark models; and iii) quantifying visual perception of the synthetic images by medical experts. Overall, both quantitative and qualitative results show that 4D-DANI-Net produces realistic, low-artefact, personalised time series of synthetic T1 MRI that outperforms benchmark models.

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Alzheimer DiseaseNeuroimagingAgingBrainHumansImage Processing, Computer-AssistedMagnetic Resonance Imaging4D-DANI-Net4D-MRIAdversarial trainingAgeingBrainDementiaDisease progression modellingGenerative modelsNeurodegenerationNeuro-imageSynthetic-images

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PMID34731771
PMCPMC8907865

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