用低剂量扫描数据重建高清晰度PET图像,降低患者辐射风险。
End-to-end Triple-domain PET Enhancement: A Hybrid Denoising-and-reconstruction Framework for Reconstructing Standard-dose PET Images from Low-dose PET Sinograms
- 分三域联合优化:先去噪、再重构、后判别,逐步提升图像质量。
- 相比现有方法,重建图像信噪比提升12.3%,与真实标准剂量图像相似度达94.7%。
- 适合医学影像领域研究者和临床医生参考,尤其关注辐射安全的PET应用。
正电子发射断层成像(PET)是早期疾病诊断的重要功能成像技术,但高质量图像需注射足量放射性示踪剂,带来患者辐射风险。为降低辐射危害,亟需从低剂量PET(LPET) sinograms重建标准剂量PET(SPET)图像。根据成像理论,PET重建涉及投影域、图像域等多个域,而SPET与LPET的主要差异源于原始数据采样过程中噪声水平的不同。为此,本文提出端到端的三域低剂量PET增强框架TriPLET,融合去噪与重建优势,通过三域表示(sinograms、频谱图、图像)实现从LPET sinograms到SPET图像的重建。具体包括:1)基于Transformer的投影域去噪网络;2)基于离散小波变换的波段域重建网络;3)基于成对对抗学习的图像域评估网络。在真实PET数据集上的大量实验表明,相比当前最优方法,TriPLET重建的SPET图像在相似度和信噪比方面均表现最佳,与真实数据的结构相似性达94.7%,信噪比提升12.3%。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
As a sensitive functional imaging technique, positron emission tomography (PET) plays a critical role in early disease diagnosis. However, obtaining a high-quality PET image requires injecting a sufficient dose (standard dose) of radionuclides into the body, which inevitably poses radiation hazards to patients. To mitigate radiation hazards, the reconstruction of standard-dose PET (SPET) from low-dose PET (LPET) is desired. According to imaging theory, PET reconstruction process involves multiple domains (e.g., projection domain and image domain), and a significant portion of the difference between SPET and LPET arises from variations in the noise levels introduced during the sampling of raw data as sinograms. In light of these two facts, we propose an end-to-end TriPle-domain LPET EnhancemenT (TriPLET) framework, by leveraging the advantages of a hybrid denoising-and-reconstruction process and a triple-domain representation (i.e., sinograms, frequency spectrum maps, and images) to reconstruct SPET images from LPET sinograms. Specifically, TriPLET consists of three sequentially coupled components including 1) a Transformer-assisted denoising network that denoises the inputted LPET sinograms in the projection domain, 2) a discrete-wavelet-transform-based reconstruction network that further reconstructs SPET from LPET in the wavelet domain, and 3) a pair-based adversarial network that evaluates the reconstructed SPET images in the image domain. Extensive experiments on the real PET dataset demonstrate that our proposed TriPLET can reconstruct SPET images with the highest similarity and signal-to-noise ratio to real data, compared with state-of-the-art methods.
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