Artificial Intelligence in PET: an Industry Perspective

no code implementations • 14 Jul 2021 • Arkadiusz Sitek, Sangtae Ahn, Evren Asma, Adam Chandler, Alvin Ihsani, Sven Prevrhal, Arman Rahmim, Babak Saboury, Kris Thielemans

Artificial intelligence (AI) has significant potential to positively impact and advance medical imaging, including positron emission tomography (PET) imaging applications.

Image Reconstruction

Improved MR to CT synthesis for PET/MR attenuation correction using Imitation Learning

no code implementations • 21 Aug 2019 • Kerstin Kläser, Thomas Varsavsky, Pawel Markiewicz, Tom Vercauteren, David Atkinson, Kris Thielemans, Brian Hutton, M. Jorge Cardoso, Sebastien Ourselin

Quantitative results show that the network generates pCTs that seem less accurate when evaluating the Mean Absolute Error on the pCT (69. 68HU) compared to a baseline CNN (66. 25HU), but lead to significant improvement in the PET reconstruction - 115a. u.

Imitation Learning

Deep Boosted Regression for MR to CT Synthesis

no code implementations • 22 Aug 2018 • Kerstin Kläser, Pawel Markiewicz, Marta Ranzini, Wenqi Li, Marc Modat, Brian F. Hutton, David Atkinson, Kris Thielemans, M. Jorge Cardoso, Sebastien Ourselin

Attenuation correction is an essential requirement of positron emission tomography (PET) image reconstruction to allow for accurate quantification.

Computed Tomography (CT) Image Reconstruction