2023
PET image denoising based on denoising diffusion probabilistic model
Gong K, Johnson K, El Fakhri G, Li Q, Pan T. PET image denoising based on denoising diffusion probabilistic model. European Journal Of Nuclear Medicine And Molecular Imaging 2023, 51: 358-368. PMID: 37787849, PMCID: PMC10958486, DOI: 10.1007/s00259-023-06417-8.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsDenoising diffusion probabilistic modelPET image denoisingDiffusion probabilistic modelImage denoisingDenoising methodNonlocal meansNetwork inputGenerative adversarial networkData consistency constraintsProbabilistic modelLearning-based modelsAdversarial networkData distributionDenoisingRefinement stepsIterative refinementFlexible frameworkImage qualityPhysical degrading factorsUNetNetworkDatasetImagesInputNoise level
2019
Arterial spin labeling MR image denoising and reconstruction using unsupervised deep learning
Gong K, Han P, Fakhri G, Ma C, Li Q. Arterial spin labeling MR image denoising and reconstruction using unsupervised deep learning. NMR In Biomedicine 2019, 35: e4224. PMID: 31865615, PMCID: PMC7306418, DOI: 10.1002/nbm.4224.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSignal-to-noise ratioImage denoisingReconstruction frameworkDeep learning-based image denoisingDeep learning-based denoisersMR image denoisingLearning-based denoisingLow signal-to-noise ratioK-space dataNoisy imagesTraining labelsTraining pairsNetwork inputNeural networkDenoisingIn vivo experiment dataSuperior performanceImaging speedReconstruction processImage qualityLong imaging timesNetworkFrameworkImagesSpatial resolution