no code implementations • 14 May 2025 • Anne-Marie Rickmann, Stephanie L. Thorn, Shawn S. Ahn, Supum Lee, Selen Uman, Taras Lysyy, Rachel Burns, Nicole Guerrera, Francis G. Spinale, Jason A. Burdick, Albert J. Sinusas, James S. Duncan
Cardiac image segmentation is an important step in many cardiac image analysis and modeling tasks such as motion tracking or simulations of cardiac mechanics.
no code implementations • 21 Dec 2024 • Huidong Xie, Weijie Gan, Wei Ji, Xiongchao Chen, Alaa Alashi, Stephanie L. Thorn, Bo Zhou, Qiong Liu, Menghua Xia, Xueqi Guo, Yi-Hwa Liu, Hongyu An, Ulugbek S. Kamilov, Ge Wang, Albert J. Sinusas, Chi Liu
This work introduced DiffSPECT-3D, a diffusion framework for 3D cardiac SPECT imaging that effectively adapts to different acquisition settings without requiring further network re-training or fine-tuning.
no code implementations • 17 Sep 2024 • Huidong Xie, Liang Guo, Alexandre Velo, Zhao Liu, Qiong Liu, Xueqi Guo, Bo Zhou, Xiongchao Chen, Yu-Jung Tsai, Tianshun Miao, Menghua Xia, Yi-Hwa Liu, Ian S. Armstrong, Ge Wang, Richard E. Carson, Albert J. Sinusas, Chi Liu
Tested on a series of PET scans from a cohort of normal volunteers, the proposed method produced images with superior visual quality.
no code implementations • 14 Feb 2024 • Xueqi Guo, Luyao Shi, Xiongchao Chen, Qiong Liu, Bo Zhou, Huidong Xie, Yi-Hwa Liu, Richard Palyo, Edward J. Miller, Albert J. Sinusas, Lawrence H. Staib, Bruce Spottiswoode, Chi Liu, Nicha C. Dvornek
Inter-frame motion in dynamic cardiac positron emission tomography (PET) using rubidium-82 (82-Rb) myocardial perfusion imaging impacts myocardial blood flow (MBF) quantification and the diagnosis accuracy of coronary artery diseases.
1 code implementation • 23 Jan 2024 • Xiongchao Chen, Bo Zhou, Xueqi Guo, Huidong Xie, Qiong Liu, James S. Duncan, Albert J. Sinusas, Chi Liu
Additionally, Computed Tomography (CT) is commonly used to derive attenuation maps ($\mu$-maps) for attenuation correction (AC) of cardiac SPECT, but it will introduce additional radiation exposure and SPECT-CT misalignments.
no code implementations • 1 Dec 2023 • Xiaoran Zhang, John C. Stendahl, Lawrence Staib, Albert J. Sinusas, Alex Wong, James S. Duncan
As the unsupervised learning scheme relies on intensity constancy between images to establish correspondence for reconstruction, this introduces spurious error residuals that are not modeled by the typical training objective.
no code implementations • 1 Dec 2023 • Xiaoran Zhang, Daniel H. Pak, Shawn S. Ahn, Xiaoxiao Li, Chenyu You, Lawrence H. Staib, Albert J. Sinusas, Alex Wong, James S. Duncan
To mitigate this, we propose a framework for heteroscedastic image uncertainty estimation that can adaptively reduce the influence of regions with high uncertainty during unsupervised registration.
1 code implementation • 23 Aug 2023 • Xueqi Guo, Luyao Shi, Xiongchao Chen, Bo Zhou, Qiong Liu, Huidong Xie, Yi-Hwa Liu, Richard Palyo, Edward J. Miller, Albert J. Sinusas, Bruce Spottiswoode, Chi Liu, Nicha C. Dvornek
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.
no code implementations • 17 May 2023 • Xiongchao Chen, Bo Zhou, Huidong Xie, Xueqi Guo, Qiong Liu, Albert J. Sinusas, Chi Liu
To overcome these challenges, we propose a dual-domain iterative network for end-to-end joint denoising and reconstruction from low-dose and few-angle projections of cardiac SPECT.
no code implementations • 17 May 2023 • Xiongchao Chen, Bo Zhou, Huidong Xie, Xueqi Guo, Qiong Liu, Albert J. Sinusas, Chi Liu
Additionally, computed tomography (CT)-derived attenuation maps ($\mu$-maps) are commonly used for SPECT attenuation correction (AC), but it will cause extra radiation exposure and SPECT-CT misalignments.
no code implementations • 24 Jun 2022 • Huidong Xie, Zhao Liu, Luyao Shi, Kathleen Greco, Xiongchao Chen, Bo Zhou, Attila Feher, John C. Stendahl, Nabil Boutagy, Tassos C. Kyriakides, Ge Wang, Albert J. Sinusas, Chi Liu
In this work, we develop a deep-learning-based method for fast cardiac SPECT PVC without anatomical information and associated organ segmentation.
1 code implementation • 10 Jun 2022 • Xiongchao Chen, Bo Zhou, Huidong Xie, Xueqi Guo, Jiazhen Zhang, Albert J. Sinusas, John A. Onofrey, Chi Liu
In this paper, we propose a Dual-Branch Squeeze-Fusion-Excitation (DuSFE) module for the registration of cardiac SPECT and CT-derived u-maps.
no code implementations • 12 Jul 2018 • Allen Lu, Nripesh Parajuli, Maria Zontak, John Stendahl, Kevinminh Ta, Zhao Liu, Nabil Boutagy, Geng-Shi Jeng, Imran Alkhalil, Lawrence H. Staib, Matthew O'Donnell, Albert J. Sinusas, James S. Duncan
We extended this framework to include a supervised loss term on synthetic data and showed the effects of biomechanical constraints on the network's ability for domain adaptation.
no code implementations • 9 Jul 2018 • Nripesh Parajuli, Allen Lu, Kevinminh Ta, John C. Stendahl, Nabil Boutagy, Imran Alkhalil, Melissa Eberle, Geng-Shi Jeng, Maria Zontak, Matthew ODonnell, Albert J. Sinusas, James S. Duncan
In this work, we propose a point matching scheme where correspondences are modeled as flow through a graphical network.