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ArticleScientific reports2023

Addressing image misalignments in multi-parametric prostate MRI for enhanced computer-aided diagnosis of prostate cancer.

Balint Kovacs, Nils Netzer, Michael Baumgartner, Adrian Schrader, Fabian Isensee, Cedric Weißer, Ivo Wolf, Magdalena Görtz, Paul F Jaeger, Victoria Schütz and 7 more

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Article in Scientific reports, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
1.6field-weighted citation impact, top 15% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

17 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Balint KovacsDivision of Medical Image Computing, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 223, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany. balint.kovacs@dkfz-heidelberg.de.ORCID 0000-0002-1191-0646
Nils NetzerDivision of Radiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-5805-0535
Michael BaumgartnerDivision of Medical Image Computing, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 223, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-4455-9917
Adrian SchraderDivision of Radiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-2112-0928
Fabian IsenseeDivision of Medical Image Computing, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 223, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-3519-5886
Cedric WeißerDivision of Radiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
Ivo WolfMannheim University of Applied Sciences, Mannheim, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-6519-6484
Magdalena GörtzJunior Clinical Cooperation Unit 'Multiparametric Methods for Early Detection of Prostate Cancer', German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
Paul F JaegerHelmholtz Imaging, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-6243-2568
Victoria SchützDepartment of Urology, University of Heidelberg Medical Center, Heidelberg, Germany.
Ralf FlocaDivision of Medical Image Computing, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 223, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany.
Regula GnirsDivision of Radiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
Albrecht StenzingerInstitute of Pathology, University of Heidelberg Medical Center, Heidelberg, Germany.
Markus HohenfellnerDepartment of Urology, University of Heidelberg Medical Center, Heidelberg, Germany.
Heinz-Peter SchlemmerDivision of Radiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
David Bonekamp *Division of Radiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-4811-0087
Klaus H Maier-Hein *Division of Medical Image Computing, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 223, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-6626-2463
German Cancer Research Center · DEHeidelberg University · DETechnische Hochschule Mannheim · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Prostate cancer (PCa) diagnosis on multi-parametric magnetic resonance images (MRI) requires radiologists with a high level of expertise. Misalignments between the MRI sequences can be caused by patient movement, elastic soft-tissue deformations, and imaging artifacts. They further increase the complexity of the task prompting radiologists to interpret the images. Recently, computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) tools have demonstrated potential for PCa diagnosis typically relying on complex co-registration of the input modalities. However, there is no consensus among research groups on whether CAD systems profit from using registration. Furthermore, alternative strategies to handle multi-modal misalignments have not been explored so far. Our study introduces and compares different strategies to cope with image misalignments and evaluates them regarding to their direct effect on diagnostic accuracy of PCa. In addition to established registration algorithms, we propose 'misalignment augmentation' as a concept to increase CAD robustness. As the results demonstrate, misalignment augmentations can not only compensate for a complete lack of registration, but if used in conjunction with registration, also improve the overall performance on an independent test set.

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ProstateProstatic NeoplasmsComputersDiagnosis, Computer-AssistedHumansMagnetic Resonance ImagingMale

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