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Objective assessment of penalized maximum likelihood reconstruction with sparsity-promoting penalty for Myocardial perfusion SPECT imagingFormat | Member Price | Non-Member Price |
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Paper Abstract
Novel methods of reconstructing the tracer distribution in myocardial perfusion images are being considered for lowcount
and sparse sampling scenarios. Few examples of low count scenarios are when the amount of radioisotope
administered or the acquisition time is lowered, in gated studies where individual gates are reconstructed. Examples of
sparse angular sampling scenarios are patient motion correction in traditional SPECT where few angles are acquired at
any given pose and in multi-pinhole SPECT where the geometry is sparse and truncated by design. The reconstruction
method is based on the assumption that the tracer distribution is sparse in the transform domain, which is enforced by a
sparsity-promoting penalty on the transform coefficients. In this work we investigated the curvelet transform as the
sparse basis for myocardial perfusion SPECT. The objective is to determine if myocardial perfusion images can be
efficiently represented in this transform domain, which can then be exploited in a penalized maximum likelihood (PML)
reconstruction scheme for improving defect detection in low-count/ sparse sampling scenarios. The performance of this
algorithm is compared to standard OSEM with 3D Gaussian post-filtering using bias-variance plots and numerical
observer studies. The Channelized Non-prewhitening Observer (CNPW) was used for defect detection task in a “signalknown-
statistically” LROC study. Preliminary investigations indicate better bias-variance characteristics and superior
CNPW performance with the proposed curvelet basis. However, further assessment using more defect locations and
human observer evaluation is needed for clinical significance.
Paper Details
Date Published: 19 March 2013
PDF: 8 pages
Proc. SPIE 8668, Medical Imaging 2013: Physics of Medical Imaging, 86681Y (19 March 2013); doi: 10.1117/12.2007061
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 8668:
Medical Imaging 2013: Physics of Medical Imaging
Robert M. Nishikawa; Bruce R. Whiting; Christoph Hoeschen, Editor(s)
PDF: 8 pages
Proc. SPIE 8668, Medical Imaging 2013: Physics of Medical Imaging, 86681Y (19 March 2013); doi: 10.1117/12.2007061
Show Author Affiliations
Joyeeta Mitra Mukherjee, Univ. of Massachusetts Medical School (United States)
Joyoni Dey, Univ. of Massachusetts Medical School (United States)
Joyoni Dey, Univ. of Massachusetts Medical School (United States)
Michael A. King, Univ. of Massachusetts Medical School (United States)
Souleymane Konate, College of Holy Cross (United States)
Souleymane Konate, College of Holy Cross (United States)
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 8668:
Medical Imaging 2013: Physics of Medical Imaging
Robert M. Nishikawa; Bruce R. Whiting; Christoph Hoeschen, Editor(s)
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