DOI: 10.1148/ryct.250521 ISSN: 2638-6135
Registration-guided GAN Synthesis of Virtual Contrast-enhanced Thoracic CT for Hilar and Mediastinal Lymph Node Detection
Motohiko Yamazaki, Kanako Oyanagi, Yuma Fuzawa, Kyoryoku You, Tetsuya Nomura, Takuya Yagi, Naoya Koizumi, Akiko Tasaki, Masaki Tominaga, Ibuki Namihira, Satoru Kobayashi, Hiroyuki IshikawaRegistration-guided generative adversarial network–synthesized virtual contrast-enhanced CT better visualized lymph nodes than conventional models, allowing readers, especially experienced radiologists, to achieve better diagnostic performance than with noncontrast CT alone.