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We then examine how the degree of supervision affects the generated contrast by evaluating three established architectures: U-Net (fully supervised), Pix2Pix (adversarial with supervision), and CycleGAN (fully adversarial).<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>\n                           <jats:bold>Results<\/jats:bold>\n                        <\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>We demonstrate that there is no performance loss when testing the proposed method against separately trained networks. Of the training paradigms investigated, the fully adversarial CycleGAN performs the worst, while the fully supervised U-Net generates more realistic voxel intensities and performed better than Pix2Pix in generating contrast images for use in a downstream segmentation task. 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