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Parameter-Transferred Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Network (PT-WGAN) for Low-Dose PET Image Denoising
Ist Teil von
IEEE transactions on radiation and plasma medical sciences, 2021-03, Vol.5 (2), p.213-223
Ort / Verlag
United States: IEEE
Erscheinungsjahr
2021
Quelle
IEEE/IET Electronic Library (IEL)
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Due to the widespread of positron emission tomography (PET) in clinical practice, the potential risk of PET-associated radiation dose to patients needs to be minimized. However, with the reduction in the radiation dose, the resultant images may suffer from noise and artifacts that compromise diagnostic performance. In this article, we propose a parameter-transferred Wasserstein generative adversarial network (PT-WGAN) for low-dose PET image denoising. The contributions of this article are twofold: 1) a PT-WGAN framework is designed to denoise low-dose PET images without compromising structural details and 2) a task-specific initialization based on transfer learning is developed to train PT-WGAN using trainable parameters transferred from a pretrained model, which significantly improves the training efficiency of PT-WGAN. The experimental results on clinical data show that the proposed network can suppress image noise more effectively while preserving better image fidelity than recently published state-of-the-art methods. We make our code available at https://github.com/90n9-yu/PT-WGAN.