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TAI-GAN: Temporally and Anatomically Informed GAN for early-to-late frame conversion in dynamic cardiac PET motion correction
TAI-GAN: Temporally and Anatomically Informed GAN for early-to-late frame conversion in dynamic cardiac PET motion correction
- Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- The rapid tracer kinetics of rubidium-82 ($^{82}$Rb) and high variation of cross-frame distribution in dynamic cardiac positron emission tomography (PET) raise significant challenges for inter-frame motion correction, particularly for the early frames where conventional intensity-based image registration techniques are not applicable. Alternatively, a promising approach utilizes generative methods to handle the tracer distribution changes to assist existing registration methods. To improve frame-wise registration and parametric quantification, we propose a Temporally and Anatomically Informed Generative Adversarial Network (TAI-GAN) to transform the early frames into the late reference frame using an all-to-one mapping. Specifically, a feature-wise linear modulation layer encodes channel-wise parameters generated from temporal tracer kinetics information, and rough cardiac segmentations with local shifts serve as the anatomical information. We validated our proposed method on a clinical $^{82}$Rb PET dataset and found that our TAI-GAN can produce converted early frames with high image quality, comparable to the real reference frames. After TAI-GAN conversion, motion estimation accuracy and clinical myocardial blood flow (MBF) quantification were improved compared to using the original frames. Our code is published at https://github.com/gxq1998/TAI-GAN.<br />Comment: Accepted by Simulation and Synthesis in Medical Imaging (SASHIMI 2023, MICCAI workshop), preprint version
Details
- Database :
- arXiv
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.2308.12443
- Document Type :
- Working Paper