Single MRI scan can classify brain tumours using deep learning model

Washington [US], August 14 (ANI): Researchers have developed a deep learning model that is capable of classifying a brain tumour as one of six common types, using a single 3D MRI scan, during a new study. The study by researchers from the Washington University School of Medicine has been published in Radiology: Artificial Intelligence. "This is the first study to address the most common intracranial tumours and to directly determine the tumour class or the absence of tumour from a 3D MRI volume," said Satrajit Chakrabarty, M.S., a doctoral student under the direction of Aristeidis Sotiras, PhD, and Daniel Marcus, PhD, in Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology's Computational Imaging Lab at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. The six most common intracranial tumour types are high-grade glioma, low-grade glioma, brain metastases, meningioma, pituitary adenoma and acoustic neuroma. Each was documented through histopathology, which requires surgically removing tissue from the site of suspected cancer and examining it under a microscope.