An Approach for Training Data Enrichment and Batch Labeling in AI+MRI Aided Diagnosis

  • WANG Hong-zhi ,
  • ZHAO Di ,
  • YANG Li-qin ,
  • XIA Tian ,
  • ZHOU Xiao-yue ,
  • MIAO Zhi-ying
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  • 1. Shanghai Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China;
    2. Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China;
    3. Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai 200040, China;
    4. Siemens Healthineers, Shanghai 201318, China;
    5. School of Optical-Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China

Received date: 2018-05-31

  Online published: 2018-07-09

Abstract

Training data enrichment is a key factor in artificial intelligence (AI) technology development. At present, the bottleneck problem is that the quantity and type of labeled training data in valid samples are unable to meet the requirements of AI+MRI aided diagnosis. In this paper, an effective approach to solve the problem was presented. High resolution isotropic multi-dimensional data of regions of interests from patients or healthy volunteers were first acquired via a series of scanning on clinical MRI scanners, including quantitative T1, T2, proton density (Pd) and apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) measurements. These data were then used as the ground truth, from which different types of images associated with different imaging sequences and parameters were obtained with a virtual MRI technology. The type of the images with the best boundary resolution were then selected manually by experienced doctors, on which three-dimensional mask matrix was obtained by manual contouring and labeling, serving as the template for other types of images. This enrichment method was developed as a software platform, which could provide sufficient quantity of image data from a small number of positive cases, thus meeting the data training enrichment requirement of AI+MRI diagnosis at low cost and with high efficiency.

Cite this article

WANG Hong-zhi , ZHAO Di , YANG Li-qin , XIA Tian , ZHOU Xiao-yue , MIAO Zhi-ying . An Approach for Training Data Enrichment and Batch Labeling in AI+MRI Aided Diagnosis[J]. Chinese Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 2018 , 35(4) : 447 -456 . DOI: 10.11938/cjmr20182658

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