用生成模型实现低剂量3D PET图像重建,提升清晰度与可靠性。
Generative-Model-Based Fully 3D PET Image Reconstruction by Conditional Diffusion Sampling
- 基于分数的生成模型,从极低计数数据中重建3D PET图像。
- 1%计数下重建结果接近全剂量水平,方差低于传统方法。
- 可生成不确定性图,适合医学影像低剂量成像研究者。
基于分数的生成模型(SGMs)在模拟正电子发射断层扫描(PET)数据上显示出良好的图像重建潜力。本文开发并实现了基于SGM的3D图像重建实用方法,并首次完成真实全3D PET数据的SGM重建。在全计数参考脑图像上训练SGM,并扩展方法以实现极低计数(原计数的1%,模拟低剂量或短时扫描)下的重建。对多个独立1%计数数据进行重建,分析其偏差与方差特性。通过从学习到的后验分布采样,计算重建图像的不确定性图。在真实全计数和低计数PET数据上评估性能,对比传统OSEM和MAP-EM基线,结果显示:本方法在低计数下重建结果更接近全剂量重建,且在偏差-方差权衡中,方差低于现有基线。未来工作将与监督式深度学习方法对比,并探索数据条件对SGM后验分布及不同示踪剂下算法表现的影响。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Score-based generative models (SGMs) have recently shown promising results for image reconstruction on simulated positron emission tomography (PET) datasets. In this work we have developed and implemented practical methodology for 3D image reconstruction with SGMs, and perform (to our knowledge) the first SGM-based reconstruction of real fully 3D PET data. We train an SGM on full-count reference brain images, and extend methodology to allow SGM-based reconstructions at very low counts (1% of original, to simulate low-dose or short-duration scanning). We then perform reconstructions for multiple independent realisations of 1% count data, allowing us to analyse the bias and variance characteristics of the method. We sample from the learned posterior distribution of the generative algorithm to calculate uncertainty images for our reconstructions. We evaluate the method's performance on real full- and low-count PET data and compare with conventional OSEM and MAP-EM baselines, showing that our SGM-based low-count reconstructions match full-dose reconstructions more closely and in a bias-variance trade-off comparison, our SGM-reconstructed images have lower variance than existing baselines. Future work will compare to supervised deep-learned methods, with other avenues for investigation including how data conditioning affects the SGM's posterior distribution and the algorithm's performance with different tracers.
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