Abstract:
:In positron emission tomography (PET) image reconstruction, the Bayesian framework with various regularization terms has been implemented to constrain the radio tracer distribution. Varying the regularizing weight of a maximum a posteriori (MAP) algorithm specifies a lower bound of the tradeoff between variance and spatial resolution measured from the reconstructed images. The purpose of this paper is to build a patch-based image enhancement scheme to reduce the size of the unachievable region below the bound and thus to quantitatively improve the Bayesian PET imaging. We cast the proposed enhancement as a regression problem which models a highly nonlinear and spatial-varying mapping between the reconstructed image patches and an enhanced image patch. An artificial neural network model named multilayer perceptron (MLP) with backpropagation was used to solve this regression problem through learning from examples. Using the BrainWeb phantoms, we simulated brain PET data at different count levels of different subjects with and without lesions. The MLP was trained using the image patches reconstructed with a MAP algorithm of different regularization parameters for one normal subject at a certain count level. To evaluate the performance of the trained MLP, reconstructed images from other simulations and two patient brain PET imaging data sets were processed. In every testing cases, we demonstrate that the MLP enhancement technique improves the noise and bias tradeoff compared with the MAP reconstruction using different regularizing weights thus decreasing the size of the unachievable region defined by the MAP algorithm in the variance/resolution plane.
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IEEE Trans Med Imagingjournal_title
IEEE transactions on medical imagingauthors
Yang B,Ying L,Tang Jdoi
10.1109/TMI.2018.2803681subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2018-06-01 00:00:00pages
1297-1309issue
6eissn
0278-0062issn
1558-254Xjournal_volume
37pub_type
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