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Huidong Xie¹, Stephanie Thorn², Yi-Hwa Liu²

¹Department of Biomedical Engineering.

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Summary

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A novel slice-by-slice Transformer network (SSTrans-3D) reconstructs cardiac SPECT images from limited-angle data. This method enhances image clarity and accuracy compared to traditional U-net models.

Keywords:

Dedicated Cardiac SPECT Deep Learning Few-angle Imaging GE Discovery NM 530/570c Transformer

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Area of Science:

Medical Imaging
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision

Background:

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) excel in medical imaging but struggle with global image understanding due to small kernel sizes.
Vision Transformers offer a potential solution for image reconstruction tasks by capturing global dependencies.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce a novel slice-by-slice Transformer network (SSTrans-3D) for reconstructing 3D cardiac SPECT images from few-angle data.
To overcome the memory limitations of 3D Transformer reconstructions while retaining global context.

Main Methods:

Developed SSTrans-3D, a Transformer-based network that processes 3D volumes slice-by-slice to reduce memory requirements.
Incorporated Transformer attention blocks for global image understanding.
Utilized already reconstructed slices as input to enhance feature extraction.

Main Results:

SSTrans-3D demonstrated superior performance in reconstructing cardiac SPECT images compared to a deep U-net.
Reconstructed images exhibited clearer heart cavities and improved cardiac defect contrast.
Quantitative measurements of the reconstructed images were more accurate.

Conclusions:

SSTrans-3D effectively reconstructs 3D cardiac SPECT images from limited-angle data, offering improved image quality and quantitative accuracy.
The slice-by-slice approach successfully balances computational efficiency with the global context-aware capabilities of Transformers.