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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…

The growing interest in human-grade total body positron emission tomography (PET) systems has also application in small animal research. Due to the existing limitations in human-based studies involving drug development and novel treatment…

This paper reviewed the machine learning-based studies for quantitative positron emission tomography (PET). Specifically, we summarized the recent developments of machine learning-based methods in PET attenuation correction and low-count…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-22 Tonghe Wang , Yang Lei , Yabo Fu , Walter J. Curran , Tian Liu , Xiaofeng Yang

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

In positron emission tomography (PET), it is indispensable to perform attenuation correction in order to obtain the quantitatively accurate activity map (tracer distribution) in the body. Generally, this is carried out based on the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-10-16 Liyang Hu , Chong Chen

Positron emission tomography (PET) is a cornerstone of modern radiology. The ability to detect cancer and metastases in whole body scans fundamentally changed cancer diagnosis and treatment. One of the main bottlenecks in the clinical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Ida Häggström , C. Ross Schmidtlein , Gabriele Campanella , Thomas J. Fuchs

Image reconstruction for positron emission tomography (PET) is challenging because of the ill-conditioned tomographic problem and low counting statistics. Kernel methods address this challenge by using kernel representation to incorporate…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-26 Siqi Li , Guobao Wang

MTV is increasingly recognized as an accurate estimate of disease burden, which has prognostic value, but its implementation has been hindered by the time-consuming need for manual segmentation of images. Automated quantitation using…

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

Positron emission tomography (PET) is widely utilized for cancer detection due to its ability to visualize functional and biological processes in vivo. PET images are usually reconstructed from histogrammed raw data (sinograms) using…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-26 Yiran Sun , Osama Mawlawi

Positron emission tomography (PET) serves as an essential tool for diagnosis of encephalopathy and brain science research. However, it suffers from the limited choice of tracers. Nowadays, with the wide application of PET imaging in…

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging requires accurate attenuation correction (AC) to account for photon loss due to tissue density variations. In PET/MR systems, computed tomography (CT), which offers a straightforward estimation of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-11 Weijie Chen , James Wang , Alan McMillan

Accurate quantification of tau pathology via tau positron emission tomography (PET) scan is crucial for diagnosing and monitoring Alzheimer's disease (AD). However, the high cost and limited availability of tau PET restrict its widespread…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Yuxin Gong , Se-in Jang , Wei Shao , Yi Su , Kuang Gong

We present a method to discover interesting brain regions in [18F] fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (PET) scans, showing also the benefits when PET scans are in combined use with non-imaging variables. The discriminative…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-08-14 Rui Li , Robert Perneczky , Alexander Drzezga , Stefan Kramer

Dynamic positron emission tomography imaging (dPET) provides temporally resolved images of a tracer enabling a quantitative measure of physiological processes. Voxel-wise physiologically-based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) modeling of the time…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-19 Francesca De Benetti , Walter Simson , Magdalini Paschali , Hasan Sari , Axel Romiger , Kuangyu Shi , Nassir Navab , Thomas Wendler

Attenuation and scatter correction (AC) is crucial for quantitative Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging. Recently, direct application of AC in the image domain using deep learning approaches has been proposed for the hybrid PET/MR…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-06-30 Reza Jahangir , Alireza Kamali-Asl , Hossein Arabi

[18F]-florbetaben positron emission tomography (PET) imaging is an established marker of {\ss}-Amyloid (A{\ss}) that is being increasingly used to assess A{\ss} deposition in AD. This study presents a novel, explainable machine…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-10 Janos Barbero , Ana Franceschi , Luca Giliberto , Patrick Phuoc Do , David Petrover , Jack Nhat Truong , Sean Clouston , Nha Nguyen , Marc Gordon , An Vo

Background: Alzheimer's disease (AD) diagnosis heavily relies on amyloid-beta positron emission tomography (Abeta-PET), which is limited by high cost and limited accessibility. This study explores whether Abeta-PET spatial patterns can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Zhengjie Zhang , Xiaoxie Mao , Qihao Guo , Shaoting Zhang , Qi Huang , Mu Zhou , Fang Xie , Mianxin Liu

The integration of positron emission tomography (PET) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has been an ongoing research topic for the last 20 years. This paper gives an overview of the different developments and the technical problems…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-10-19 Stefaan Vandenberghe , Paul Marsden

Positron Annihilation Lifetime Spectroscopy (PALS) has shown to be a powerful tool to study the nanostructures of porous materials. Positron Emissions Tomography (PET) are devices allowing imaging of metabolic processes e.g. in human…