2016
A Bayesian spatial temporal mixtures approach to kinetic parametric images in dynamic positron emission tomography
Zhu W, Ouyang J, Rakvongthai Y, Guehl N, Wooten D, Fakhri G, Normandin M, Fan Y. A Bayesian spatial temporal mixtures approach to kinetic parametric images in dynamic positron emission tomography. Medical Physics 2016, 43: 1222-1234. PMID: 26936707, PMCID: PMC5025019, DOI: 10.1118/1.4941010.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPositron emission tomographySpatial mixture modelNearby voxelsMixture modelEmission tomographyDynamic positron emission tomographyK-means methodKinetic modelKinetic parametric imagesOne-compartment kinetic modelNovel algorithmTemporal informationClassification purposesMeasurement of local perfusionLocal perfusionTime activity curvesNormal ROIsTemporal modelBayesian algorithmCardiac studiesMarkov chain Monte CarloParameter estimationNoise regionSimulation experimentsSimulated data sets
2011
A Nonlocal Averaging Technique for Kinetic Parameter Estimation from Dynamic PET Data
Dutta J, Fakhri G, Leahy R, Li Q. A Nonlocal Averaging Technique for Kinetic Parameter Estimation from Dynamic PET Data. 2011, 3562-3566. DOI: 10.1109/nssmic.2011.6153669.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchNonlocal meansDenoising schemeGaussian filtering techniquePatlak parametric imagesDenoised time seriesDenoising frameworkClustering stepDistributed natureGaussian filterLocal neighborhoodVoxel-wise estimationHigh noise levelsData setsDenoisingFiltering techniqueSchemeDataLow varianceNoise levelTime activity curvesEstimation of kinetic parametersDynamic PET imagesParameter estimationVoxelImages
2006
Simultaneous Dual Tracer PET Using Generalized Factor Analysis of Dynamic Sequences
Fakhri G, Sitek A, Guérin B. Simultaneous Dual Tracer PET Using Generalized Factor Analysis of Dynamic Sequences. 2006, 4: 2128-2130. DOI: 10.1109/nssmic.2006.354334.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchGeneralized five‐dimensional dynamic and spectral factor analysis
Fakhri G, Sitek A, Zimmerman R, Ouyang J. Generalized five‐dimensional dynamic and spectral factor analysis. Medical Physics 2006, 33: 1016-1024. PMID: 16696478, DOI: 10.1118/1.2179168.Peer-Reviewed Original Research