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Main Authors: Vega, Fernando, Addeh, Abdoljalil, MacDonald, M. Ethan
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.02109
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author Vega, Fernando
Addeh, Abdoljalil
MacDonald, M. Ethan
author_facet Vega, Fernando
Addeh, Abdoljalil
MacDonald, M. Ethan
contents Motivation: Alzheimer's Disease hallmarks include amyloid-beta deposits and brain atrophy, detectable via PET and MRI scans, respectively. PET is expensive, invasive and exposes patients to ionizing radiation. MRI is cheaper, non-invasive, and free from ionizing radiation but limited to measuring brain atrophy. Goal: To develop an 3D image translation model that synthesizes amyloid-beta PET images from T1-weighted MRI, exploiting the known relationship between amyloid-beta and brain atrophy. Approach: The model was trained on 616 PET/MRI pairs and validated with 264 pairs. Results: The model synthesized amyloid-beta PET images from T1-weighted MRI with high-degree of similarity showing high SSIM and PSNR metrics (SSIM>0.95&PSNR=28). Impact: Our model proves the feasibility of synthesizing amyloid-beta PET images from structural MRI ones, significantly enhancing accessibility for large-cohort studies and early dementia detection, while also reducing cost, invasiveness, and radiation exposure.
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spellingShingle Three-Dimensional Amyloid-Beta PET Synthesis from Structural MRI with Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks
Vega, Fernando
Addeh, Abdoljalil
MacDonald, M. Ethan
Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Motivation: Alzheimer's Disease hallmarks include amyloid-beta deposits and brain atrophy, detectable via PET and MRI scans, respectively. PET is expensive, invasive and exposes patients to ionizing radiation. MRI is cheaper, non-invasive, and free from ionizing radiation but limited to measuring brain atrophy. Goal: To develop an 3D image translation model that synthesizes amyloid-beta PET images from T1-weighted MRI, exploiting the known relationship between amyloid-beta and brain atrophy. Approach: The model was trained on 616 PET/MRI pairs and validated with 264 pairs. Results: The model synthesized amyloid-beta PET images from T1-weighted MRI with high-degree of similarity showing high SSIM and PSNR metrics (SSIM>0.95&PSNR=28). Impact: Our model proves the feasibility of synthesizing amyloid-beta PET images from structural MRI ones, significantly enhancing accessibility for large-cohort studies and early dementia detection, while also reducing cost, invasiveness, and radiation exposure.
title Three-Dimensional Amyloid-Beta PET Synthesis from Structural MRI with Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks
topic Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.02109