no code implementations • 2 Feb 2024 • Wentao Chen, Jiwei Li, Xichen Xu, Hui Huang, Siyu Yuan, Miao Zhang, Tianming Xu, Jie Luo, Weimin Zhou
In this study, we investigated unsupervised learning methods for unpaired MRI to PET translation for generating pseudo normal FDG PET for epileptic focus localization.
no code implementations • 2 Feb 2024 • Wentao Chen, Xichen Xu, Jie Luo, Weimin Zhou
Recently, an augmented GAN architecture named AmbientGAN has been proposed that can be trained on noisy measurement data to synthesize high-quality clean medical images.
no code implementations • 2 Feb 2024 • Xichen Xu, Wentao Chen, Weimin Zhou
Ideally, computation of task-based measures of IQ needs to account for all sources of randomness in the measurement data, including the variability in the ensemble of objects to be imaged.
no code implementations • 2 Apr 2023 • Weimin Zhou, Umberto Villa, Mark A. Anastasio
Medical imaging systems are often evaluated and optimized via objective, or task-specific, measures of image quality (IQ) that quantify the performance of an observer on a specific clinically-relevant task.
no code implementations • 28 Jan 2022 • Weimin Zhou, Miguel P. Eckstein
We demonstrate that the search strategy corresponding to the Q-network is consistent with the IS search strategy.
no code implementations • 22 Oct 2021 • Kaiyan Li, Weimin Zhou, Hua Li, Mark A. Anastasio
Specifically, a hybrid approach is developed that combines a multi-task convolutional neural network and a Markov-Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method in order to approximate the IO for detection-estimation tasks.
no code implementations • 27 Jun 2021 • Weimin Zhou, Sayantan Bhadra, Frank J. Brooks, Hua Li, Mark A. Anastasio
AmbientGANs established using the proposed training procedure are systematically validated in a controlled way using computer-simulated magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data corresponding to a stylized imaging system.
no code implementations • 28 Apr 2021 • Kaiyan Li, Weimin Zhou, Hua Li, Mark A. Anastasio
The performance of the ideal observer (IO) and common linear numerical observers are quantified and detection efficiencies are computed to assess the impact of the denoising operation on task performance.
no code implementations • 30 Jan 2021 • Weimin Zhou, Sayantan Bhadra, Frank J. Brooks, Jason L. Granstedt, Hua Li, Mark A. Anastasio
Medical imaging systems are commonly assessed and optimized by use of objective-measures of image quality (IQ) that quantify the performance of an observer at specific tasks.
no code implementations • 29 May 2020 • Weimin Zhou, Sayantan Bhadra, Frank J. Brooks, Hua Li, Mark A. Anastasio
To circumvent this, in this work, a new Progressive Growing AmbientGAN (ProAmGAN) strategy is developed for establishing SOMs from medical imaging measurements.
no code implementations • 29 May 2020 • Weimin Zhou, Hua Li, Mark A. Anastasio
When joint signal detection and localization tasks are considered, the IO that employs a modified generalized likelihood ratio test maximizes observer performance as characterized by the localization receiver operating characteristic (LROC) curve.
no code implementations • 4 Mar 2020 • Jason L. Granstedt, Weimin Zhou, Mark A. Anastasio
Overall, AEs are demonstrated to be competitive with state-of-the-art methods for generating efficient channels for the HO and can have superior performance on small datasets.
no code implementations • 3 Feb 2020 • Shenghua He, Weimin Zhou, Hua Li, Mark A. Anastasio
In this study, we propose and investigate the use of an adversarial domain adaptation method to mitigate the deleterious effects of domain shift between simulated and experimental image data for deep learning-based numerical observers (DL-NOs) that are trained on simulated images but applied to experimental ones.
no code implementations • 27 Jan 2020 • Sayantan Bhadra, Weimin Zhou, Mark A. Anastasio
Medical image reconstruction is typically an ill-posed inverse problem.
no code implementations • 26 Jan 2020 • Weimin Zhou, Mark A. Anastasio
To approximate the IO test statistic, sampling-based methods that employ Markov-Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) techniques have been developed.
no code implementations • 26 Jan 2020 • Weimin Zhou, Sayantan Bhadra, Frank J. Brooks, Hua Li, Mark A. Anastasio
However, because medical imaging systems record imaging measurements that are noisy and indirect representations of object properties, GANs cannot be directly applied to establish stochastic models of objects to-be-imaged.
no code implementations • 15 May 2019 • Weimin Zhou, Hua Li, Mark A. Anastasio
For binary signal detection tasks, the Bayesian Ideal Observer (IO) sets an upper limit of observer performance and has been advocated for use in optimizing medical imaging systems and data-acquisition designs.