Improved myocardial perfusion PET imaging using artificial neural networks

X Wang, B Yang, X Gao, J Tang - 2018 - Soc Nuclear Med
27 Objectives: Artificial neural networks (ANNs) have proven to be powerful tools for medical
image analysis and led to improvements in diagnosis and assessment of diseases. The goal …

Improved myocardial perfusion PET imaging using artificial neural networks

X Wang, B Yang, JB Moody, J Tang - Physics in Medicine & …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Myocardial perfusion (MP) PET imaging plays a key role in risk assessment and stratification
of patients with coronary artery disease. In this work, we proposed a patch-based artificial …

Direct parametric image reconstruction for dynamic myocardial perfusion PET using artificial neural network representation

A Li, J Tang - 2022 - Soc Nuclear Med
2393 Introduction: Dynamic PET myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) enables the absolute
quantification of myocardial blood flow (MBF), which is valuable in diagnosis and prognosis …

Bias-variance tradeoff of indirect versus direct parametric reconstruction for PET myocardial perfusion imaging

Y Petibon, G El Fakhri, J Ouyang - 2017 - Soc Nuclear Med
702 Objectives: The aim of this study was to assess the bias-variance tradeoff offered by
direct and indirect parametric PET reconstruction with a quadratic penalty function for in-vivo …

Optimization of noise filtering parameters using cardiac phantom simulation for PET myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) in F18 flurpiridaz phase III clinical trial

CA Yang, B Hsu, J Logan, J Lazewatsky - 2012 - Soc Nuclear Med
2236 Objectives In clinical trials involving imaging, noise filtration (NF) is necessary so that
noise does not negatively impact the blinded read. NF with optimized filter parameters (OFP) …

Improved myocardial perfusion PET imaging with MRI assisted reconstruction incorporating multi-resolution joint entropy

X Wang, B Yang, MP Adams, X Gao… - Physics in Medicine …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Myocardial perfusion (MP) PET imaging plays an important role in risk assessment and
stratification of patients with coronary artery disease. In this work, we developed an anatomy …

MRI guided myocardial perfusion PET image reconstruction

J Tang, X Wang, NA Karakatsanis, L Lu… - 2013 IEEE Nuclear …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Integrated whole-body PET/MRI provides opportunities to fully take advantage of
simultaneously acquired anatomical and functional information. The purpose of this study is …

Sparsity constrained direct parametric reconstruction in dynamic PET myocardial perfusion imaging

B Yang, J Tang - 2019 - Soc Nuclear Med
110 Objectives: Dynamic myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) with PET serves an important
role in diagnosis and prognosis of patents with suspected or known coronary artery disease …

A fast nonlinear method for parametric imaging of myocardial perfusion by dynamic 13N-ammonia PET

SR Golish, JD Hove, HR Schelbert… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2001 - Soc Nuclear Med
A parametric image of myocardial perfusion (mL/min/g) is a quantitative image generated by
fitting a tracer kinetic model to dynamic 13N-ammonia PET data on a pixel-by-pixel basis …

Low-rank plus sparse decomposition based dynamic myocardial perfusion PET image restoration

L Lu, X Ma, JI Ma, Q Feng, A Rahmim, W Chen - 2015 - Soc Nuclear Med
1482 Objectives To improve the absolute quantitation of dynamic myocardial perfusion (MP)
PET imaging through low-rank plus sparse decomposition based MP PET image restoration …