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. 2022 Dec 21;12:22059. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-26328-2

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Workflow of our study of automated MRI liver and vessels segmentation with a convolutional neural network (nnU-Net) on non-contrast T1 vibe Dixon acquisitions. The MRI sequences were extracted from a pre-existing picture archiving and communication system (PACS) and manually labelled slice-by-slice. Segmentation experiments with single-modal and multi-modal inputs were defined. In-phase (In), water (W), and opposed-phase (Opp) constituted single-modal inputs. In-phase, water (In-W); in-phase, opposed-phase (In-Opp); in-phase, opposed-phase, water (In-Opp-W); and in-phase, opposed-phase, fat, water (In-Opp-F-W) constituted multi-modal inputs. For each experiment, the nnU-Net was trained and evaluated separately. Lastly, the segmentation results were analyzed quantitatively and statistically compared.