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
2022
Structure-aware unsupervised tagged-to-cine MRI synthesis with self disentanglement
Liu X, Xing F, Prince J, Stone M, El Fakhri G, Woo J. Structure-aware unsupervised tagged-to-cine MRI synthesis with self disentanglement. Proceedings Of SPIE--the International Society For Optical Engineering 2022, 12032: 120321q-120321q-7. PMID: 36203947, PMCID: PMC9533681, DOI: 10.1117/12.2610655.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchStructure feature extractorImage style transferSelf-training schemeStyle transferFeature extractorAdversarial gameSynthesized imagesInformation w.Superior performanceStructural consistencyTask-specificCycle reconstructionStructural encodingImagesDiscoGANCycleGANEncodingExtractorExtraction stepNetworkSchemeGameInput