Fumio Hashimoto1, Masanori Ito2, Kibo Ote3, Takashi Isobe3, Hiroyuki Okada4,5, Yasuomi Ouchi6. 1. Central Research Laboratory, Hamamatsu Photonics K.K., Hamamatsu, 434-8601, Japan. fumio.hashimoto@crl.hpk.co.jp. 2. Global Strategic Challenge Center, Hamamatsu Photonics K.K., Hamamatsu, 434-8601, Japan. masanori.ito@hpk.co.jp. 3. Central Research Laboratory, Hamamatsu Photonics K.K., Hamamatsu, 434-8601, Japan. 4. Global Strategic Challenge Center, Hamamatsu Photonics K.K., Hamamatsu, 434-8601, Japan. 5. Hamamatsu Medical Imaging Center, Hamamatsu Medical Photonics Foundation, Hamamatsu, 434-8601, Japan. 6. Department of Biofunctional Imaging, Preeminent Medical Photonics Education and Research Center, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, 431-3192, Japan.
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: Attenuation correction (AC) is crucial for ensuring the quantitative accuracy of positron emission tomography (PET) imaging. However, obtaining accurate μ-maps from brain-dedicated PET scanners without AC acquisition mechanism is challenging. Therefore, to overcome these problems, we developed a deep learning-based PET AC (deep AC) framework to synthesize transmission computed tomography (TCT) images from non-AC (NAC) PET images using a convolutional neural network (CNN) with a huge dataset of various radiotracers for brain PET imaging. METHODS: The proposed framework is comprised of three steps: (1) NAC PET image generation, (2) synthetic TCT generation using CNN, and (3) PET image reconstruction. We trained the CNN by combining the mixed image dataset of six radiotracers to avoid overfitting, including [18F]FDG, [18F]BCPP-EF, [11C]Racropride, [11C]PIB, [11C]DPA-713, and [11C]PBB3. We used 1261 brain NAC PET and TCT images (1091 for training and 70 for testing). We did not include [11C]Methionine subjects in the training dataset, but included them in the testing dataset. RESULTS: The image quality of the synthetic TCT images obtained using the CNN trained on the mixed dataset of six radiotracers was superior to those obtained using the CNN trained on the split dataset generated from each radiotracer. In the [18F]FDG study, the mean relative PET biases of the emission-segmented AC (ESAC) and deep AC were 8.46 ± 5.24 and - 5.69 ± 4.97, respectively. The deep AC PET and TCT AC PET images exhibited excellent correlation for all seven radiotracers (R2 = 0.912-0.982). CONCLUSION: These results indicate that our proposed deep AC framework can be leveraged to provide quantitatively superior PET images when using the CNN trained on the mixed dataset of PET tracers than when using the CNN trained on the split dataset which means specific for each tracer.
OBJECTIVES: Attenuation correction (AC) is crucial for ensuring the quantitative accuracy of positron emission tomography (PET) imaging. However, obtaining accurate μ-maps from brain-dedicated PET scanners without AC acquisition mechanism is challenging. Therefore, to overcome these problems, we developed a deep learning-based PET AC (deep AC) framework to synthesize transmission computed tomography (TCT) images from non-AC (NAC) PET images using a convolutional neural network (CNN) with a huge dataset of various radiotracers for brain PET imaging. METHODS: The proposed framework is comprised of three steps: (1) NAC PET image generation, (2) synthetic TCT generation using CNN, and (3) PET image reconstruction. We trained the CNN by combining the mixed image dataset of six radiotracers to avoid overfitting, including [18F]FDG, [18F]BCPP-EF, [11C]Racropride, [11C]PIB, [11C]DPA-713, and [11C]PBB3. We used 1261 brain NAC PET and TCT images (1091 for training and 70 for testing). We did not include [11C]Methionine subjects in the training dataset, but included them in the testing dataset. RESULTS: The image quality of the synthetic TCT images obtained using the CNN trained on the mixed dataset of six radiotracers was superior to those obtained using the CNN trained on the split dataset generated from each radiotracer. In the [18F]FDG study, the mean relative PET biases of the emission-segmented AC (ESAC) and deep AC were 8.46 ± 5.24 and - 5.69 ± 4.97, respectively. The deep AC PET and TCT AC PET images exhibited excellent correlation for all seven radiotracers (R2 = 0.912-0.982). CONCLUSION: These results indicate that our proposed deep AC framework can be leveraged to provide quantitatively superior PET images when using the CNN trained on the mixed dataset of PET tracers than when using the CNN trained on the split dataset which means specific for each tracer.
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