Deep Learning Reconstruction Enables Accelerated Prostate MRI Without Compromising Reader-Assessed Visual Quality
Motivation: MRI demand for prostate cancer detection is rising, necessitating reduced scan times. While deep learning (DL) shows promise for accelerating MRI, the perceived visual quality of DL-reconstructed images by expert radiologists remains underexplored. Goal(s): To assess expert radiologists' perceived visual quality of DL-reconstructed prostate MRI scans with various acceleration factors (3x, 6x). Approach: A retrospective study with 120 prostate MRIs was conducted. Expert radiologists evaluated image quality using a split-plot design and ordinal mixed-effects modeling. Results: Up to 6x acceleration did not significantly reduce perceived image quality. Interestingly, 3x accelerated images even improved perceived quality compared to non-accelerated images. Impact: DL-based reconstruction can generate high-quality T2-weighted prostate MRIs from accelerated acquisitions without any perceived loss in overall visual quality by expert radiologists compared with the original non-accelerated images.
Authors
- Jaap Borstlap
- Frank Simonis
- Jasper J. Twilt (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9673-6770)
- Barış Türkbey (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0853-6494)
- Thomas C. Kwee (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9005-8529)
- Jonas Teuwen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1825-1428)
- Stefan J. Fransen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5454-5052)
- Quintin van Lohuizen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7128-0818)
- Jurgen J. Fütterer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6800-2879)
- Dennis B. Rouw
- HenkJan J. Huisman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6753-3221)
- Christian Roest (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3575-4465)
- S Whitney
- Yuki Arita
- George Yiasemis
- Derya Yakar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4920-9441)
- Ivo G. Schoots (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9804-0603)
- Maarten de Rooij (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7257-7907)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Proceedings on CD-ROM - International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. Scientific Meeting and Exhibition/Proceedings of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Scientific Meeting and Exhibition
- Published
- 2025-09-16
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.58530/2025/2649
- Primary Topic
- Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00