ACQI researchers and students Nathaniel Barry, Jake Kendrick, Mubashar Hassan, Saima Safdar, Brani Rusanov, Pejman Rowshanfarzad and Martin Ebert has been successful in applying to the WA Future Health Research and Innovation (FHRI) Fund’s Generative AI Applications Challenge. The related project, to be undertaken at the Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, involves investigating the ability of generative artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to convert brain cancer imaging of different modalities, such as between magnetic resonance imaging and positron emission tomography. If an AI algorithm can learn the relationships between image types and those relationships are common across patients, then there is the possibility to reduce the number of imaging sessions a patient would require, or to produce an image of a different type where the related imaging technology may not be available. The funding provided by the FHRI will be used to purchase a very high powered computer workstation equipped with two NVIDIA A6000 graphics processing units to help speed the AI’s learning process.
We are extraordinarily grateful to the FHRI managers, the grant reviewers and to the WA Government for the opportunity to make use of these funds.
Australian Centre for Quantitative Imaging 