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  • Medical Imaging
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Nuclear Medicine

Background:

  • Bootstrap resampling is a common method for estimating statistical uncertainty in parameters derived from medical imaging data.
  • Its application to Positron Emission Tomography (PET) list-mode data, particularly for human brain studies, requires careful validation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To systematically assess the performance of bootstrap resampling on PET list-mode data.
  • To evaluate the accuracy of bootstrap-derived statistical uncertainty estimations across varying levels of data counts.

Main Methods:

  • A two-stage resampling process was employed: 'real world' (generating reference datasets) and 'bootstrap world' (generating bootstrap replicates).
  • PET list-mode data from human brain and phantoms were used, with datasets at different statistical levels generated.
  • Reconstructed images yielded voxel and region of interest (ROI) values, with distributions compared using Jensen-Shannon divergence and moment analysis.

Main Results:

  • Bootstrap distributions consistently differed from 'real world' distributions across statistical levels.
  • A mean shift, proportional to the inverse square root of counts, was observed (up to 33% for voxels, 14% for ROIs).
  • Variance estimation was poor at very low statistical levels, though other moments were well replicated.

Conclusions:

  • Bootstrap resampling is effective for PET data but requires caution at low statistical levels due to potential bias.
  • Careful application is recommended for dynamic PET acquisitions with low counts, such as early time frames, to ensure reliable variance estimation.