2024
Cross noise level PET denoising with continuous adversarial domain generalization
Liu X, Eslahi S, Marin T, Tiss A, Chemli Y, Huang Y, Johnson K, Fakhri G, Ouyang J. Cross noise level PET denoising with continuous adversarial domain generalization. Physics In Medicine And Biology 2024, 69: 085001. PMID: 38484401, PMCID: PMC11195012, DOI: 10.1088/1361-6560/ad341a.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchDomain generalization techniqueDomain generalizationDenoising performanceSuperior denoising performanceLatent feature representationGeneral techniqueDistribution shiftsAdversarial trainingDenoised imageFeature representationDomain labelsDistribution divergenceNoise levelDeep learningImage spaceDenoisingPerformance degradationCore ideaNoise realizationsCD methodNoiseImage volumesPerformanceImagesPSNR
2019
Body motion detection and correction in cardiac PET: Phantom and human studies
Sun T, Petibon Y, Han P, Ma C, Kim S, Alpert N, Fakhri G, Ouyang J. Body motion detection and correction in cardiac PET: Phantom and human studies. Medical Physics 2019, 46: 4898-4906. PMID: 31508827, PMCID: PMC6842053, DOI: 10.1002/mp.13815.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsList-mode dataMotion-compensated image reconstructionMotion correctionCenter of massPET list-mode dataMotion correction methodMotion detectionMotion estimationImage reconstructionPatient body motionDegrade image qualityNonrigid registrationImage qualityMotion transformationCoincident distributionBody motion detectionCardiac positron emission tomographyBack-projection techniqueCovariance matrixImage volumesBody motionPositron emission tomographyBack-projectionReference framePhantom
2007
Fast Analytical Modeling of Compton Scatter Using Point Clouds and Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)
Sitek A, Fakhri G, Ouyang J, Maltz J. Fast Analytical Modeling of Compton Scatter Using Point Clouds and Graphics Processing Unit (GPU). 2007, 6: 4546-4548. DOI: 10.1109/nssmic.2007.4437122.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchGraphics processing unitsComputation timeProcessing unitPoint cloudsNVIDIA Quadro FXCalculation speedEfficient geometric modelingScattered point cloudExorbitant computation timeComputing architectureImage samplesImaging modelResolution levelsComputational frameworkComputerGraphicsComputer simulationsArchitectureRepresentationCloudImage volumesNatural advantagesComputational modelCompton scatteringAccurate model