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Detail-Preserving PET Reconstruction with Sparse Image Representation and Anatomical Priors.

Jiao, J; Markiewicz, Pawel; Burgos, N; Atkinson, D; Hutton, B; Arridge, S; Ourselin, S; (2015) Detail-Preserving PET Reconstruction with Sparse Image Representation and Anatomical Priors. Information Processing in Medical Imaging , 24 pp. 540-551. Green open access

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Abstract

Positron emission tomography (PET) reconstruction is an ill-posed inverse problem which typically involves fitting a high-dimensional forward model of the imaging process to noisy, and sometimes undersampled photon emission data. To improve the image quality, prior information derived from anatomical images of the same subject has been previously used in the penalised maximum likelihood (PML) method to regularise the model complexity and selectively smooth the image on a voxel basis in PET reconstruction. In this work, we propose a novel perspective of incorporating the prior information by exploring the sparse property of natural images. Instead of a regular voxel grid, the sparse image representation jointly determined by the prior image and the PET data is used in reconstruction to leverage between the image details and smoothness, and this prior is integrated into the PET forward model and has a closed-form expectation maximisation (EM) solution. Simulations show that the proposed approach achieves improved bias versus variance trade-off and higher contrast recovery than the current state-of-the-art methods, and preserves the image details better. Application to clinical PET data shows promising results.

Type: Article
Title: Detail-Preserving PET Reconstruction with Sparse Image Representation and Anatomical Priors.
Location: Germany
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: Algorithms, Brain, Data Interpretation, Statistical, Humans, Image Enhancement, Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted, Imaging, Three-Dimensional, Likelihood Functions, Pattern Recognition, Automated, Positron-Emission Tomography, Reproducibility of Results, Sensitivity and Specificity, Subtraction Technique
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Div of Medicine
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Div of Medicine > Department of Imaging
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Med Phys and Biomedical Eng
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1512467
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