ArticleCancers2024
Human-Level Differentiation of Medulloblastoma from Pilocytic Astrocytoma: A Real-World Multicenter Pilot Study.
Article in Cancers, 2024. 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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- Application of artificial intelligence in paediatric oncology imaging.Pediatric radiology · 2026Review
- Differentiating medulloblastoma and pilocytic astrocytoma in children based on multimodal MRI radiomics model.Neuroradiology · 2026Article
- Predicting Paediatric Brain Disorders from MRI Images Using Advanced Deep Learning Techniques.Neuroinformatics · 2025Article
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Abstract
Medulloblastoma and pilocytic astrocytoma are the two most common pediatric brain tumors with overlapping imaging features. In this proof-of-concept study, we investigated using a deep learning classifier trained on a multicenter data set to differentiate these tumor types. We developed a patch-based 3D-DenseNet classifier, utilizing automated tumor segmentation. Given the heterogeneity of imaging data (and available sequences), we used all individually available preoperative imaging sequences to make the model robust to varying input. We compared the classifier to diagnostic assessments by five readers with varying experience in pediatric brain tumors. Overall, we included 195 preoperative MRIs from children with medulloblastoma (
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