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Hybrid Multi-Dimensional MRI Prostate Cancer Detection via Hadamard Network-Based Bias Correction and Residual Networks
arXiv:2604.17107v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is vital for prostate cancer (PCa) diagnosis. While advanced techniques such as Hybrid Multi-dimensional MRI (HM-MRI) h
arXiv:2604.17107v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is vital for prostate cancer (PCa) diagnosis. While advanced techniques such as Hybrid Multi-dimensional MRI (HM-MRI) have enhanced diagnostic capabilities, the significant need remains for robust, automated Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based detection methods. In this study, we combine quantitative HM-MRI of tissue composition with an AI-based neural network. We propose the Hadamard-Bias Network plus ResNet18 (HBR-Net-18), a two-stage AI framework for PCa detection. In the first stage, a Hadamard U-Net-based algorithm suppresses intensity inhomogeneities (bias fields) across six parametric HM-MRI maps generated via a Physics-Informed Autoencoder (PIA). In the second stage, a Residual Network (ResNet-18) performs patch-level classification. The framework utilizes overlapping 11-by-11 patches, incorporating both 2D intra-slice and 3D inter-slice (adjacent-slice) information to improve spatial consistency. Our experimental results demonstrate that HB-Net achieves balanced sensitivity and specificity, significantly outperforming conventional radiomics-based approaches and baseline CNN models, highlighting its potential for clinical deployment.
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Source: arXiv cs.CV | 2026-04-21