. To address the quality and accuracy issues in the distribution of nanophosphors (NPs) using Cone-beam x-ray luminescence computed tomography (CB-XLCT) by proposing a novel reconstruction strategy..
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPharmacokinetic parametric images obtained through dynamic fluorescence molecular tomography (DFMT) has ability of capturing dynamic changes in fluorescence concentration, thereby providing three-dimensional metabolic information for applications in biological research and drug development. However, data processing of DFMT is time-consuming, involves a vast amount of data, and the problem itself is ill-posed, which significantly limits the application of pharmacokinetic parametric images reconstruction. In this study, group sparse-based Taylor expansion method is proposed to address these problems.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDiffuse optical tomography (DOT) employs near-infrared light to reveal the optical parameters of biological tissues. Due to the strong scattering of photons in tissues and the limited surface measurements, DOT reconstruction is severely ill-posed. The Levenberg-Marquardt (LM) is a popular iteration method for DOT, however, it is computationally expensive and its reconstruction accuracy needs improvement.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFluorescence molecular tomography (FMT), as a promising technique for early tumor detection, can non-invasively visualize the distribution of fluorescent marker probe three-dimensionally. However, FMT reconstruction is a severely ill-posed problem, which remains an obstacle to wider application of FMT. In this paper, a two-step reconstruction framework was proposed for FMT based on the energy statistical probability.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAnnu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc
July 2023
Non-linear least square minimization algorithms are often employed to solve Diffuse Optical Tomography (DOT) inverse problem. However, it is time-consuming to calculate the Jacobian matrix. This work has proposed a data-driven neural network method to improve computational efficiency.
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July 2023
Fluorescence molecular tomography (FMT) is a highly sensitive and noninvasive optical imaging technique which has been widely applied to disease diagnosis and drug discovery. However, FMT reconstruction is a highly ill-posed problem. In this work, L0-norm regularization is employed to construct the mathematical model of the inverse problem of FMT.
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July 2023
X-ray luminescence computed tomography (XLCT) is an emerging molecular imaging technique for biological application. However, it is still a challenge to get a stable and accurate solution of the reconstruction of XLCT. This paper presents a regularization parameter selection strategy based on incomplete variables frame for XLCT.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground And Objective: Bioluminescence Tomography (BLT) is a powerful optical molecular imaging technique that enables the noninvasive investigation of dynamic biological phenomena. It aims to reconstruct the three-dimensional spatial distribution of bioluminescent sources from optical measurements collected on the surface of the imaged object. However, BLT reconstruction is a challenging ill-posed problem due to the scattering effect of light and the limitations in detecting surface photons, which makes it difficult for existing methods to achieve satisfactory reconstruction results.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFluorescence molecular tomography (FMT) is an optical imaging modality that provides high sensitivity and low cost, which can offer the three-dimensional distribution of biomarkers by detecting the fluorescently labeled probe noninvasively. In the field of preclinical cancer diagnosis and treatment, FMT has gained significant traction. Nonetheless, the current FMT reconstruction results suffer from unsatisfactory morphology and location accuracy of the fluorescence distribution, primarily due to the light scattering effect and the ill-posed nature of the inverse problem.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAs a dual-modal imaging technology that has emerged in recent years, cone-beam X-ray luminescence computed tomography (CB-XLCT) has exhibited promise as a tool for the early three-dimensional detection of tumors in small animals. However, due to the challenges imposed by the low absorption and high scattering of light in tissues, the CB-XLCT reconstruction problem is a severely ill-conditioned inverse problem, rendering it difficult to obtain satisfactory reconstruction results. In this study, a strategy that utilizes dictionary learning and group structure (DLGS) is proposed to achieve satisfactory CB-XLCT reconstruction performance.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSignificance: Fluorescence molecular tomography (FMT) is a promising imaging modality, which has played a key role in disease progression and treatment response. However, the quality of FMT reconstruction is limited by the strong scattering and inadequate surface measurements, which makes it a highly ill-posed problem. Improving the quality of FMT reconstruction is crucial to meet the actual clinical application requirements.
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June 2023
Background And Objective: Fluorescence molecular tomography (FMT) is a non-invasive molecular imaging modality that can be used to observe the three-dimensional distribution of fluorescent probes in vivo. FMT is a promising imaging technique in clinical and preclinical research that has attracted significant attention. Numerous regularization based reconstruction algorithms have been proposed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCerenkov luminescence tomography (CLT) provides a powerful optical molecular imaging technique for non-invasive detection and visualization of radiopharmaceuticals in living objects. However, the severe photon scattering effect causes ill-posedness of the inverse problem, and the location accuracy and shape recovery of CLT reconstruction results are unsatisfactory for clinical application. Here, to improve the reconstruction spatial location accuracy and shape recovery ability, a non-negative iterative three operator splitting (NNITOS) strategy based on elastic net (EN) regularization was proposed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBioluminescence tomography (BLT) is a promising non-invasive optical medical imaging technique, which can visualize and quantitatively analyze the distribution of tumor cells in living tissues. However, due to the influence of photon scattering effect and ill-conditioned inverse problem, the reconstruction result is unsatisfactory. The purpose of this study is to improve the reconstruction performance of BLT.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAs a promising noninvasive medical imaging technique, bioluminescence tomography (BLT) dynamically offers three-dimensional visualization of tumor distribution in living animals. However, due to the high ill-posedness caused by the strong scattering property of biological tissues and the limited boundary measurements with noise, BLT reconstruction still cannot meet actual preliminary clinical application requirements. In our research, to recover 3D tumor distribution quickly and precisely, an adaptive Newton hard thresholding pursuit (ANHTP) algorithm is proposed to improve the performance of BLT.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: To evaluate the value of deep learning (DL) combining multimodal radiomics and clinical and imaging features for differentiating ocular adnexal lymphoma (OAL) from idiopathic orbital inflammation (IOI).
Methods: Eighty-nine patients with histopathologically confirmed OAL (n = 39) and IOI (n = 50) were divided into training and validation groups. Convolutional neural networks and multimodal fusion layers were used to extract multimodal radiomics features from the T1-weighted image (T1WI), T2-weighted image, and contrast-enhanced T1WI.
Bioluminescence tomography (BLT) is a promising molecular imaging tool that allows non-invasive monitoring of physiological and pathological processes at the cellular and molecular levels. However, the accuracy of the BLT reconstruction is significantly affected by the forward modeling errors in the simplified photon propagation model, the measurement noise in data acquisition, and the inherent ill-posedness of the inverse problem. In this paper, we present a new multispectral differential strategy (MDS) on the basis of analyzing the errors generated from the simplification from radiative transfer equation (RTE) to diffusion approximation and data acquisition of the imaging system.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHarnessing the power and flexibility of radiolabeled molecules, Cerenkov luminescence tomography (CLT) provides a novel technique for non-invasive visualisation and quantification of viable tumour cells in a living organism. However, owing to the photon scattering effect and the ill-posed inverse problem, CLT still suffers from insufficient spatial resolution and shape recovery in various preclinical applications. In this study, we proposed a total variation constrained graph manifold learning (TV-GML) strategy for achieving accurate spatial location, dual-source resolution, and tumour morphology.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCerenkov luminescence tomography (CLT) is a promising non-invasive optical imaging method with three-dimensional semiquantitative imaging capability. However, CLT itself relies on Cerenkov radiation, a low-intensity radiation, making CLT reconstruction more challenging than other imaging modalities. In order to solve the ill-posed inverse problem of CLT imaging, some numerical optimization or regularization methods need to be applied.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFluorescence molecular tomography (FMT), which is used to visualize the three-dimensional distribution of fluorescence probe in small animals via the reconstruction method, has become a promising imaging technique in preclinical research. However, the classical reconstruction criterion is formulated based on the squared -norm distance metric, leaving it prone to being influenced by the presence of outliers. In this study, we propose a robust distance based on the correntropy-induced metric with a Laplacian kernel (CIML).
View Article and Find Full Text PDF. X-ray luminescence computed tomography (XLCT) has played a crucial role in pre-clinical research and effective diagnosis of disease. However, due to the ill-posed of the XLCT inverse problem, the generalization of reconstruction methods and the selection of appropriate regularization parameters are still challenging in practical applications.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Opt Soc Am A Opt Image Sci Vis
July 2021
X-ray luminescence computed tomography (XLCT) has become an emerging hybrid molecular imaging technology with high detection sensitivity and low cost. However, the inverse problem of reconstruction has severe ill-posed consequences. The original regularization algorithm needs to take much time to solve the problem.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Opt Soc Am A Opt Image Sci Vis
November 2018
Fluorescence molecular tomography (FMT) has been a promising imaging tool because it allows an accurate localizaton and quantitative analysis of the fluorophore distribution in animals. It, however, is still a challenge since its reconstruction suffers from severe ill-posedness. This paper introduces a reconstruction frame based on three-way decisions (TWD) for the inverse problem of FMT.
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