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Positron Emission Tomography (PET) image reconstruction is inherently challenged by Poisson noise and physical degradation factors, which are further exacerbated in limited-angle acquisitions. While deep learning methods demonstrate…

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In this work, an image translation model is implemented to produce synthetic amyloid-beta PET images from structural MRI that are quantitatively accurate. Image pairs of amyloid-beta PET and structural MRI were used to train the model. We…

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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…

Deep learning has significantly advanced PET image re-construction, achieving remarkable improvements in image quality through direct training on sinogram or image data. Traditional methods often utilize masks for inpainting tasks, but…

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Tau positron emission tomography (tau-PET) is an important in vivo biomarker of Alzheimer's disease, but its cost, limited availability, and acquisition burden restrict broad clinical use. This work proposes an interpretable multimodal…

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Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is an imaging method that can assess physiological function rather than structural disturbances by measuring cerebral perfusion or glucose consumption. However, this imaging technique relies on injection…

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In clinical practice, single-radiotracer positron emission tomography (PET) is commonly used for imaging. Although multi-tracer PET imaging can provide supplementary information of radiotracers that are sensitive to physiological function…

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PET suffers from a low signal-to-noise ratio. Meanwhile, the k-space data acquisition process in MRI is time-consuming by PET-MRI systems. We aim to accelerate MRI and improve PET image quality. This paper proposed a novel joint…

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Detecting amyloid-$\beta$ (A$\beta$) positivity is crucial for early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease but typically requires PET imaging, which is costly, invasive, and not widely accessible, limiting its use for population-level screening.…

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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…

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Diagnosing dementia, particularly for Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD), is complex due to overlapping symptoms. While magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and positron emission tomography (PET) data are critical for…

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Low-dose Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging presents a significant challenge due to increased noise and reduced image quality, which can compromise its diagnostic accuracy and clinical utility. Denoising diffusion probabilistic…

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While pathology foundation models have transformed cancer image analysis, they often lack integration with molecular data at single-cell resolution, limiting their utility for precision oncology. Here, we present PAST, a pan-cancer…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-07-10 Changchun Yang , Haoyang Li , Yushuai Wu , Yilan Zhang , Yifeng Jiao , Yu Zhang , Rihan Huang , Yuan Cheng , Yuan Qi , Xin Guo , Xin Gao

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

Diffusion models have recently enabled state-of-the-art reconstruction of positron emission tomography (PET) images while requiring only image training data. However, domain shift remains a key concern for clinical adoption: priors trained…

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Multi-modal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provides rich, complementary information for analyzing diseases. However, the practical challenges of acquiring multiple MRI modalities, such as cost, scan time, and safety considerations, often…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-16 Zhaohu Xing , Sicheng Yang , Sixiang Chen , Tian Ye , Yijun Yang , Jing Qin , Lei Zhu

Recent studies suggest that combined analysis of Magnetic resonance imaging~(MRI) that measures brain atrophy and positron emission tomography~(PET) that quantifies hypo-metabolism provides improved accuracy in diagnosing Alzheimer's…

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Transformer-based methods have demonstrated impressive results in medical image restoration, attributed to the multi-head self-attention (MSA) mechanism in the spatial dimension. However, the majority of existing Transformers conduct…

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