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Deep auto-context convolutional neural networks for standard-dose PET image estimation from low-dose PET/MRI

Authors
Xiang, LeiQiao, YuNie, DongAn, LeLin, WeiliWang, QianShen, Dinggang
Issue Date
6-12월-2017
Publisher
ELSEVIER
Keywords
PET image restoration; Deep convolutional neural network; Auto-context strategy
Citation
NEUROCOMPUTING, v.267, pp.406 - 416
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Journal Title
NEUROCOMPUTING
Volume
267
Start Page
406
End Page
416
URI
https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/81208
DOI
10.1016/j.neucom.2017.06.048
ISSN
0925-2312
Abstract
Positron emission tomography (PET) is an essential technique in many clinical applications such as tumor detection and brain disorder diagnosis. In order to obtain high-quality PET images, a standard-dose radioactive tracer is needed, which inevitably causes the risk of radiation exposure damage. For reducing the patient's exposure to radiation and maintaining the high quality of PET images, in this paper, we propose a deep learning architecture to estimate the high-quality standard dose PET (SPET) image from the combination of the low-quality low-dose PET (LPET) image and the accompanying Tl-weighted acquisition from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Specifically, we adapt the convolutional neural network (CNN) to account for the two channel inputs of LPET and T1, and directly learn the end-to-end mapping between the inputs and the SPET output. Then, we integrate multiple CNN modules following the auto-context strategy, such that the tentatively estimated SPET of an early CNN can be iteratively refined by subsequent CNNs. Validations on real human brain PET/MRI data show that our proposed method can provide competitive estimation quality of the PET images, compared to the state-of-the-art methods. Meanwhile, our method is highly efficient to test on a new subject, e.g., spending similar to 2 s for estimating an entire SPET image in contrast to 16 min by the state-of-the-art method. The results above demonstrate the potential of our method in real clinical applications. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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