Dynamic PET Image Reconstruction Using Nonnegative Matrix Factorization Incorporated With Deep Image Prior

Tatsuya Yokota, Kazuya Kawai, Muneyuki Sakata, Yuichi Kimura, Hidekata Hontani; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2019, pp. 3126-3135

Abstract


We propose a method that reconstructs dynamic positron emission tomography (PET) images from given sinograms by using non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) incorporated with a deep image prior (DIP) for appropriately constraining the spatial patterns of resultant images. The proposed method can reconstruct dynamic PET images with higher signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and blindly decompose an image matrix into pairs of spatial and temporal factors. The former represent homogeneous tissues with different kinetic parameters and the latter represent the time activity curves that are observed in the corresponding homogeneous tissues. We employ U-Nets combined in parallel for DIP and each of the U-nets is used to extract each spatial factor decomposed from the data matrix. Experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms conventional methods and can extract spatial factors that represent the homogeneous tissues.

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[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Yokota_2019_ICCV,
author = {Yokota, Tatsuya and Kawai, Kazuya and Sakata, Muneyuki and Kimura, Yuichi and Hontani, Hidekata},
title = {Dynamic PET Image Reconstruction Using Nonnegative Matrix Factorization Incorporated With Deep Image Prior},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)},
month = {October},
year = {2019}
}