DCE-MRI of the spine was analyzed to differentiate metastasis from lung cancer (N=30) and other tumors (N=31, 9 breast, 6 prostate, 7 thyroid, 6 liver, 3 kidney). Using DCE parameters measured from the tumor ROI, CHAID decision tree classification selected the wash-out slope of -6.6% and wash-in SE of 98% as thresholds, which could achieve diagnostic accuracy of 0.79. In machine learning, the enhanced tumor on DCE image was segmented automatically by using the normalized cut algorithm. The Convolutional Long Short Term Memory (CLSTM) network with all 12 sets of DCE images as the input could yield accuracy of 0.75-0.84.
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