PUBLICATIONS

We are actively involved in advancing progress in the field of deep learning at the international level. And we apply their extensive knowledge in building AI technologies for healthcare guided by a rigorous evidence-based approach.

Segmenting Brain Tumors from MRI Using Cascaded 3D U-Nets

Authors

Krzysztof Kotowski, Szymon Adamski, Wojciech Malara, Bartosz Machura, Lukasz Zarudzki, Jakub Nalepa

Conference paper

International MICCAI Brainlesion Workshop


Description

In this paper, we exploit a cascaded 3D U-Net architecture to perform detection and segmentation of brain tumors (low- and high-grade gliomas) from multi-modal magnetic resonance scans. First, we detect tumors in a binary-classification setting, and they later undergo multi-class segmentation. To provide high-quality generalization, we investigate several regularization techniques that help improve the segmentation performance obtained for the unseen scans, and benefit from the expert knowledge of a senior radiologist captured in a form of several post-processing routines. Our preliminary experiments elaborated over the BraTS’20 validation set revealed that our approach delivers high-quality tumor delineation.

Fully-automated deep learning-powered system for DCE-MRI analysis of brain tumors

Authors

Jakub Nalepa, Pablo Ribalta Lorenzo, Michal Marcinkiewicz, Barbara Bobek-Billewicz, Pawel Wawrzyniak, Maksym Walczak, Michal Kawulok, Wojciech Dudzik, Krzysztof Kotowski, Izabela Burda, Bartosz Machura, Grzegorz Mrukwa, Pawel Ulrych, Michael P Hayball

Journal

Artificial intelligence in medicine


Description

Dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI) plays an important role in diagnosis and grading of brain tumors. Although manual DCE biomarker extraction algorithms boost the diagnostic yield of DCE-MRI by providing quantitative information on tumor prognosis and prediction, they are time-consuming and prone to human errors. In this paper, we propose a fully-automated, end-to-end system for DCE-MRI analysis of brain tumors. Our deep learning-powered technique does not require any user interaction, it yields reproducible results, and it is rigorously validated against benchmark and clinical data.

Detection and segmentation of brain tumors from MRI using U-Nets

Authors

Krzysztof Kotowski, Jakub Nalepa, Wojciech Dudzik

Conference

International MICCAI Brainlesion Workshop


Description

In this paper, we exploit a cascaded U-Net architecture to perform detection and segmentation of brain tumors (low- and high-grade gliomas) from magnetic resonance scans. First, we detect tumors in a binary-classification setting, and they later undergo multi-class segmentation. The total processing time of a single input volume amounts to around 15 s using a single GPU. The preliminary experiments over the BraTS’19 validation set revealed that our approach delivers high-quality tumor delineation and offers instant segmentation.

Segmenting brain tumors from FLAIR MRI using fully convolutional neural networks

Authors

Pablo Ribalta Lorenzo, Jakub Nalepa, Barbara Bobek-Billewicz, Pawel Wawrzyniak, Grzegorz Mrukwa, Michal Kawulok, Pawel Ulrych, Michael P Hayball

Journal

Computer methods and programs in biomedicine


Description

Background and Objective. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an indispensable tool in diagnosing brain-tumor patients. Automated tumor segmentation is being widely researched to accelerate the MRI analysis and allow clinicians to precisely plan treatment—accurate delineation of brain tumors is a critical step in assessing their volume, shape, boundaries, and other characteristics. However, it is still a very challenging task due to inherent MR data characteristics and high variability, e.g., in tumor sizes or shapes. We present a new deep learning approach for accurate brain tumor segmentation which can be trained from small and heterogeneous datasets annotated by a human reader (providing high-quality ground-truth segmentation is very costly in practice). Methods. In this paper, we present a new deep learning technique for segmenting brain tumors from fluid attenuation inversion recovery MRI. Our …