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Ivan Kruzhilov1,2, Stepan Kudin2, Luka Vetoshkin3
1Applied Mathematics and AI, Moscow Power Engineering Institute, Moscow, Russia.
Purpose:
A reduced acquisition time positively impacts the patient's comfort and the PET scanner's throughput. AI methods may allow for reducing PET acquisition time without sacrificing image quality. The study aims to compare various neural networks to find the best models for PET denoising.
Methods:
Our experiments consider 212 studies (56,908 images) for 7MBq/kg injected activity and evaluate the models using 2D (RMSE, SSIM) and 3D (SUVpeak and SUVmax error for the regions of interest) metrics. We tested 2D and 2.5D ResNet, Unet, SwinIR, 3D MedNeXt, and 3D UX-Net. We have also compared supervised methods with the unsupervised CycleGAN approach.
Results And Conclusion:
The best model for PET denoising is 3D MedNeXt. It improved SSIM on 38.2% and RMSE on 28.1% in 30-s PET denoising and on 16.9% and 11.4% in 60-s PET denoising when compared to the original 90-s PET reducing at the same time SUVmax discrepancy dispersion.
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