Summary of 2.5d Multi-view Averaging Diffusion Model For 3d Medical Image Translation: Application to Low-count Pet Reconstruction with Ct-less Attenuation Correction, by Tianqi Chen et al.
2.5D Multi-view Averaging Diffusion Model for 3D Medical Image Translation: Application to Low-count PET Reconstruction with CT-less Attenuation Correction
by Tianqi Chen, Jun Hou, Yinchi Zhou, Huidong Xie, Xiongchao Chen, Qiong Liu, Xueqi Guo, Menghua Xia, James S. Duncan, Chi Liu, Bo Zhou
First submitted to arxiv on: 12 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The abstract presents a novel method for reducing radiation hazards in Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scans. The current approach of reducing the tracer injection dose and eliminating CT acquisition for attenuation correction can result in noisy and biased PET images. To address this issue, the authors developed a 2.5D Multi-view Averaging Diffusion Model (MADM) that employs separate diffusion models for axial, coronal, and sagittal views, which are then averaged to generate high-quality 3D translation images. This method outperforms traditional CNN-based and diffusion-based methods on human patient studies. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper develops a new way to make PET scans safer by reducing radiation exposure. Right now, making these scans takes a lot of radiation, which is bad for patients and doctors. To fix this problem, the authors created a special computer model that can take noisy and biased scan images and turn them into better ones. This model uses multiple views from different directions to make sure the result is accurate and helpful. The paper shows that this new approach works really well on real patient data. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Cnn » Diffusion » Diffusion model » Translation
