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An ordered-subsets proximal preconditioned gradient algorithm for edge-preserving PET image reconstruction.

Abolfazl Mehranian1, Arman Rahmim, Mohammad Reza Ay

  • 1Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Geneva University Hospital, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland.

Medical Physics
|May 3, 2013
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A new Proximal Preconditioned Gradient-Ordered Subsets (PPG-OS) algorithm improves positron emission tomography (PET) image reconstruction speed and edge preservation. This method enhances convergence rates and incorporates boundary information for clearer PET imaging.

Area of Science:

  • Medical Imaging
  • Computational Science
  • Image Reconstruction

Background:

  • Iterative positron emission tomography (PET) image reconstruction often uses penalized weighted least-squares (PWLS) cost functions.
  • Statistical variability in PET data can be approximated by a Gaussian distribution, justifying PWLS.
  • Optimization challenges arise from ill-conditioned Hessian matrices and non-differentiable regularizers like total variation (TV).

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a proximal preconditioned gradient algorithm accelerated with ordered subsets (PPG-OS) for PWLS cost function optimization.
  • To develop a framework for incorporating boundary side information into edge-preserving regularizations (TV and Huber).
  • To address slow convergence and improve edge preservation in PET image reconstruction.

Main Methods:

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  • Developed the PPG-OS algorithm, splitting optimization into gradient descent and proximal mapping steps.
  • Utilized preconditioning, step size optimization, and ordered subsets in the gradient descent phase.
  • Employed dual formulation to solve the proximal mapping for boundary-weighted TV and Huber regularizers.
  • Incorporated adaptively or anatomically derived boundary information.

Main Results:

  • The PPG-OS algorithm demonstrated a considerably improved convergence rate compared to the state-of-the-art separable paraboloidal surrogates accelerated with ordered-subsets (SPS-OS) algorithm in simulation studies.
  • Evaluations showed improved bias-variance and signal-to-noise performance when using anatomical edge information with the PPG-OS algorithm.
  • Clinical studies confirmed the algorithm's potential for fast and edge-preserving PET image reconstruction using adaptively derived boundary information.

Conclusions:

  • The PPG-OS algorithm offers an improved convergence rate for regularized PET image reconstruction.
  • The algorithm effectively incorporates additional boundary information, enhancing image quality.
  • PPG-OS presents a promising approach for efficient and accurate PET image reconstruction.