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Conversion of T2-Weighted Magnetic Resonance Images of Cervical Spine Trauma to Short T1 Inversion Recovery (STIR) Images by Generative Adversarial Network.
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- Diagnostic interchangeability of deep-learning based Synth-STIR images generated from T1 and T2 weighted spine images.European radiology · 2026Article
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introductionThe short T1 inversion recovery (STIR) sequence is advantageous for visualizing ligamentous injuries, but the STIR sequence may be missing in some cases. The purpose of this study was to generate synthetic STIR images from MRI T2-weighted images (T2WI) of patients with cervical spine trauma using a generative adversarial network (GAN). Methods: A total of 969 pairs of T2WI and STIR images were extracted from 79 patients with cervical spine trauma. The synthetic model was trained 100 times, and the performance of the model was evaluated with five-fold cross-validation. Results: As for quantitative validation, the structural similarity score was 0.519±0.1 and the peak signal-to-noise ratio score was 19.37±1.9 dB. As for qualitative validation, the incorporation of synthetic STIR images generated by a GAN alongside T2WI substantially enhances sensitivity in the detection of interspinous ligament injuries, outperforming assessments reliant solely on T2WI.
conclusionThe GAN model can generate synthetic STIRs from T2 images of cervical spine trauma using image-to-image conversion techniques. The use of a combination of synthetic STIR images generated by a GAN and T2WI improves sensitivity in detecting interspinous ligament injuries compared to assessments that use only T2WI.
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