2024
Dose-aware Diffusion Model for 3D Low-count Cardiac SPECT Image Denoising with Projection-domain Consistency
Xie H, Gan W, Chen X, Zhou B, Liu Q, Xia M, Guo X, Liu Y, An H, Kamilov U, Wang G, Sinusas A, Liu C. Dose-aware Diffusion Model for 3D Low-count Cardiac SPECT Image Denoising with Projection-domain Consistency. 2024, 00: 1-1. DOI: 10.1109/nss/mic/rtsd57108.2024.10655170.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchImage denoisingImage denoising performanceDeep learning techniquesNoise-levelDenoising performanceDenoising resultsNeural networkLearning techniquesSPECT imagesLow count levelsSPECT scansDenoisingSampling stepIterative reconstructionNoise amplitudeImagesInjected dosePatient studiesDiffusion modelRadiation exposureCardiology studiesSPECTNetworkStochastic natureMLEM
2023
DuSFE: Dual-Channel Squeeze-Fusion-Excitation co-attention for cross-modality registration of cardiac SPECT and CT
Chen X, Zhou B, Xie H, Guo X, Zhang J, Duncan J, Miller E, Sinusas A, Onofrey J, Liu C. DuSFE: Dual-Channel Squeeze-Fusion-Excitation co-attention for cross-modality registration of cardiac SPECT and CT. Medical Image Analysis 2023, 88: 102840. PMID: 37216735, PMCID: PMC10524650, DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2023.102840.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCross-modality registrationConvolutional layersCo-attention mechanismMultiple convolutional layersCo-attention moduleDifferent convolutional layersMedical image registrationInput data streamDeep learning strategiesLow registration errorIntensity-based registration methodCardiac SPECTΜ-mapsDeep learningFeature fusionData streamsInput imageSource codeFeature mapsNeural networkImage registrationSpatial featuresRegistration performanceRegistration methodInput information
2022
Dual-Branch Squeeze-Fusion-Excitation Module for Cross-Modality Registration of Cardiac SPECT and CT
Chen X, Zhou B, Xie H, Guo X, Zhang J, Sinusas A, Onofrey J, Liu C. Dual-Branch Squeeze-Fusion-Excitation Module for Cross-Modality Registration of Cardiac SPECT and CT. Lecture Notes In Computer Science 2022, 13436: 46-55. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-16446-0_5.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConvolutional neural networkCross-modality registrationFeature fusionPrevious convolutional neural networkEarly feature fusionCross-modality informationMultiple convolutional layersMedical image registrationLow registration errorCardiac SPECTConvolutional layersCNN moduleImage featuresLate fusionSource codeNeural networkExcitation moduleInput modalitiesImage registrationSpatial featuresMultiple modalitiesRegistration errorPrevious methodsRigid registrationNetworkDeep-Learning-Based Few-Angle Cardiac SPECT Reconstruction Using Transformer
Xie H, Thorn S, Liu Y, Lee S, Liu Z, Wang G, Sinusas A, Liu C. Deep-Learning-Based Few-Angle Cardiac SPECT Reconstruction Using Transformer. IEEE Transactions On Radiation And Plasma Medical Sciences 2022, 7: 33-40. PMID: 37397179, PMCID: PMC10312390, DOI: 10.1109/trpms.2022.3187595.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConvolutional neural networkLimitations of CNNMedical imaging tasksDeep U-NetImage reconstruction taskCardiac SPECT imagesComputer visionVision TransformerConvolutional kernelsTransformer networkAttention blockInput imageU-NetNeural networkMemory burdenImage sizeInductive biasInformative featuresImage volumesImaging tasksTesting dataNetworkWhole 3D volumeNetwork structureCardiac single photon emission
2017
Flow Network Based Cardiac Motion Tracking Leveraging Learned Feature Matching
Parajuli N, Lu A, Stendahl J, Zontak M, Boutagy N, Alkhalil I, Eberle M, Lin B, O’Donnell M, Sinusas A, Duncan J. Flow Network Based Cardiac Motion Tracking Leveraging Learned Feature Matching. Lecture Notes In Computer Science 2017, 10434: 279-286. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-66185-8_32.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCardiac motion trackingNeural networkMotion trackingTedious feature engineeringSiamese neural networkMotion tracking methodFeature engineeringSiamese networkFeature matchingGraph nodesImage patchesSpatiotemporal problemsTracking algorithmTracking methodEdge weightsNetworkLinear programmingConsistent constraintsAdditional important contributionTrackingAlgorithmDatasetProgrammingNodesMatching