PET image denoising based on denoising diffusion probabilistic models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2209.06167v2
• Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2022 16:07:53 GMT
• Title: PET image denoising based on denoising diffusion probabilistic models
• Abstract summary: DDPM are distribution learning-based models, which try to transform a normal distribution into a specific data distribution. 120 18F-FDG datasets and 140 18F-MK-6240 datasets were utilized to evaluate the proposed DDPM-based methods. Adding additional MR prior in the model can help achieve better performance and further reduce the uncertainty during image denoising.
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• Abstract: Due to various physical degradation factors and limited counts received, PET image quality needs further improvements. The denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPM) are distribution learning-based models, which try to transform a normal distribution into a specific data distribution based on iterative refinements. In this work, we proposed and evaluated different DDPM-based methods for PET image denoising. Under the DDPM framework, one way to perform PET image denoising is to provide the PET image and/or the prior image as the network input. Another way is to supply the prior image as the input with the PET image included in the refinement steps, which can fit for scenarios of different noise levels. 120 18F-FDG datasets and 140 18F-MK-6240 datasets were utilized to evaluate the proposed DDPM-based methods. Quantification show that the DDPM-based frameworks with PET information included can generate better results than the nonlocal mean and Unet-based denoising methods. Adding additional MR prior in the model can help achieve better performance and further reduce the uncertainty during image denoising. Solely relying on MR prior while ignoring the PET information can result in large bias. Regional and surface quantification shows that employing MR prior as the network input while embedding PET image as a data-consistency constraint during inference can achieve the best performance. In summary, DDPM-based PET image denoising is a flexible framework, which can efficiently utilize prior information and achieve better performance than the nonlocal mean and Unet-based denoising methods.

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