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PET image reconstruction is challenging due to the ill-poseness of the inverse problem and limited number of detected photons. Recently deep neural networks have been widely and successfully used in computer vision tasks and attracted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-11 Kuang Gong , Jiahui Guan , Kyungsang Kim , Xuezhu Zhang , Georges El Fakhri , Jinyi Qi , Quanzheng Li

Positron emission tomography (PET) suffers from severe resolution limitations which limit its quantitative accuracy. In this paper, we present a super-resolution (SR) imaging technique for PET based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs).…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-29 Tzu-An Song , Samadrita Roy Chowdhury , Fan Yang , Joyita Dutta

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is a vital imaging modality widely used in clinical diagnosis and preclinical research but faces limitations in image resolution and signal-to-noise ratio due to inherent physical degradation factors.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-11 Boxiao Yu , Kuang Gong

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging is a vital tool in medical diagnostics, offering detailed insights into molecular processes within the human body. However, PET images often suffer from complicated noise, which can obscure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Xuehua Ye , Hongxu Yang , Adam J. Schwarz

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is an imaging technique which can be used to investigate chemical changes in human biological processes such as cancer development or neurochemical reactions. Most dynamic PET scans are currently analyzed…

Applications · Statistics 2014-11-11 Ci-Ren Jiang , John A D Aston , Jane-Ling Wang

We developed a positron emission tomography (PET) system for multiple-isotope imaging. Our PET system, named multiple-isotope PET (MI-PET), can distinguish between different tracer nuclides using coincidence measurement of prompt…

Low-dose positron emission tomography (PET) image reconstruction methods have potential to significantly improve PET as an imaging modality. Deep learning provides a promising means of incorporating prior information into the image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Cameron Dennis Pain , Yasmeen George , Alex Fornito , Gary Egan , Zhaolin Chen

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) /Computed Tomography (CT) is crucial for diagnosing, managing, and planning treatment for various cancers. Developing reliable deep learning models for the segmentation of tumor lesions in PET/CT scans in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-24 Tanya Chutani , Saikiran Bonthu , Pranab Samanta , Nitin Singhal

Deep image prior (DIP) has recently attracted attention owing to its unsupervised positron emission tomography (PET) image reconstruction, which does not require any prior training dataset. In this paper, we present the first attempt to…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-08-08 Fumio Hashimoto , Yuya Onishi , Kibo Ote , Hideaki Tashima , Taiga Yamaya

Positron emission tomographs (PET) do not measure an image directly. Instead, they measure at the boundary of the field-of-view (FOV) of PET tomograph a sinogram that consists of measurements of the sums of all the counts along the lines…

List-mode positron emission tomography (PET) image reconstruction is an important tool for PET scanners with many lines-of-response and additional information such as time-of-flight and depth-of-interaction. Deep learning is one possible…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-02-13 Kibo Ote , Fumio Hashimoto , Yuya Onishi , Takashi Isobe , Yasuomi Ouchi

Images from positron emission tomography (PET) provide metabolic information about the human body. They present, however, a spatial resolution that is limited by physical and instrumental factors often modeled by a blurring function. Since…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-08 Stéphanie Guérit , Adriana González , Anne Bol , John A. Lee , Laurent Jacques

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is a functional imaging modality widely used in neuroscience studies. To obtain meaningful quantitative results from PET images, attenuation correction is necessary during image reconstruction. For PET/MR…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Kuang Gong , Jaewon Yang , Kyungsang Kim , Georges El Fakhri , Youngho Seo , Quanzheng Li

Attenuation correction is an essential requirement of positron emission tomography (PET) image reconstruction to allow for accurate quantification. However, attenuation correction is particularly challenging for PET-MRI as neither PET nor…

As a sensitive functional imaging technique, positron emission tomography (PET) plays a critical role in early disease diagnosis. However, obtaining a high-quality PET image requires injecting a sufficient dose (standard dose) of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-06 Caiwen Jiang , Mianxin Liu , Kaicong Sun , Dinggang Shen

Diffusion models have shown great promise in medical image denoising and reconstruction, but their application to Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging remains limited by tracer-specific contrast variability and high computational…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-03 Fumio Hashimoto , Kuang Gong

Image reconstruction of low-count positron emission tomography (PET) data is challenging. Kernel methods address the challenge by incorporating image prior information in the forward model of iterative PET image reconstruction. The…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-25 Siqi Li , Kuang Gong , Ramsey D. Badawi , Edward J. Kim , Jinyi Qi , Guobao Wang

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scanners are usually designed with the goal to obtain the best compromise between sensitivity, resolution, field-of-view size, and cost. Therefore, it is difficult to improve the resolution of a PET…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-07-18 Pablo Galve , Alejandro Lopez-Montes , Jose M Udias , Stephen C Moore , Joaquin L Herraiz

To obtain high-quality positron emission tomography (PET) while minimizing radiation exposure, a range of methods have been designed to reconstruct standard-dose PET (SPET) from corresponding low-dose PET (LPET) images. However, most…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-11 Yuchen Fei , Yanmei Luo , Yan Wang , Jiaqi Cui , Yuanyuan Xu , Jiliu Zhou , Dinggang Shen

In oncology, Positron Emission Tomography imaging is widely used in diagnostics of cancer metastases, in monitoring of progress in course of the cancer treatment, and in planning radiotherapeutic interventions. Accurate and reproducible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Jakub Czakon , Filip Drapejkowski , Grzegorz Zurek , Piotr Giedziun , Jacek Zebrowski , Witold Dyrka