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Cancer is a highly heterogeneous condition that can occur almost anywhere in the human body. 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose is an imaging modality commonly used to detect cancer due to its high sensitivity and clear visualisation of the pattern of…
The present paper proposes a novel computational method for parametric imaging of nuclear medicine data. The mathematical procedure is general enough to work for compartmental models of diverse complexity and is effective in the…
The problem of parameter estimation by i.i.d. observations of an inhomogeneous Poisson process is considered in situation of misspecification. The model is that of a Poissonian signal observed in presence of a homogeneous Poissonian noise.…
Phase-transition-based luminescent thermometers are characterized by two inherent limitations: a narrow thermal operating range and the presence of a hysteresis loop in the thermometric parameter. In this work, we demonstrate that…
Parametric imaging is a compartmental approach that processes nuclear imaging data to estimate the spatial distribution of the kinetic parameters governing tracer flow. The present paper proposes a novel and efficient computational method…
Non-homogeneous Poisson processes are used in a wide range of scientific disciplines, ranging from the environmental sciences to the health sciences. Often, the central object of interest in a point process is the underlying intensity…
Modern PET systems reach a spatial resolution of 3-10 mm. A disadvantage of this technique is the diffusion of the positron before its decay with a typical range of ca. 1 mm (depending on its energy). This motion and Compton scattering of…
Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is crucial in medicine, but its clinical use is limited due to high signal-to-noise ratio doses increasing radiation exposure. Lowering doses increases Poisson noise, which current denoising methods fail…
Purpose: The main purpose of this study was to assess the reliability of shape and heterogeneity features in both Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and low-dose Computed Tomography (CT) components of PET/CT. A secondary objective was to…
For whole-body (WB) kinetic modeling based on a typical PET scanner, a multi-pass multi-bed scanning protocol is necessary given the limited axial field-of-view. Such a protocol introduces loss of early-dynamics in time-activity curves…
Position Emission Tomography (PET) is an advanced clinical diagnostic imaging technique for nuclear medicine. Small animal PET is increasingly uesd for studying the animal model of disease, new drugs and new therapies. A prototype of…
We study online change point detection for multivariate inhomogeneous Poisson point process time series. This setting arises commonly in applications such as earthquake seismology, climate monitoring, and epidemic surveillance, yet remains…
Intraoperative Gamma Probe (IPG) remains the current gold standard modality for sentinel lymph node identification and tumor removal in cancer patients. However, even alongside the optical dyes they do not meet with <5% false negative rates…
Accurate quantification in positron emission tomography (PET) is essential for accurate diagnostic results and effective treatment tracking. A major issue encountered in PET imaging is attenuation. Attenuation refers to the diminution of…
This paper provides estimation and inference methods for a conditional average treatment effects (CATE) characterized by a high-dimensional parameter in both homogeneous cross-sectional and unit-heterogeneous dynamic panel data settings. In…
A PET scanner based on silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) has been widely used as an advanced nuclear medicine imaging technique that yields quantitative images of regional in vivo biology and biochemistry. The compact size of the SiPM allows…
``Oversimplified'' and ``simplified'' methods based on true coincidence summing effect used in uncomplicated determination of the photo-peak efficiency of the semiconductor High Purity Germanium (HPGe) detector system are suggested and…
Lesion segmentation in PET/CT imaging is essential for precise tumor characterization, which supports personalized treatment planning and enhances diagnostic precision in oncology. However, accurate manual segmentation of lesions is…
The Internal Conversion Electron SPectrometer In Coincidence Experiments (ICESPICE) demonstrator has been developed at Florida State University to enable particle/gamma-electron coincidence measurements in low-energy nuclear structure…
[$^{18}$F]fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) has emerged as a crucial tool in identifying the epileptic focus, especially in cases where magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) diagnosis yields indeterminate results. FDG…