Journal
DIAGNOSTICS
Volume 12, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/diagnostics12040872
Keywords
deep learning; PET; radiation exposure; super-resolution
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- Northern Advancement Center for Science & Technology of Hokkaido Japan
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This study aimed to investigate whether the SR deep learning technique could enhance the image quality of short-acquisition PET images and thereby reduce the injected FDG dose. The results showed that the SR-PET image was more similar to the 100% PET image, indicating a significant improvement in image quality.
In positron emission tomography (PET) imaging, image quality correlates with the injected [18F]-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) dose and acquisition time. If image quality improves from short-acquisition PET images via the super-resolution (SR) deep learning technique, it is possible to reduce the injected FDG dose. Therefore, the aim of this study was to clarify whether the SR deep learning technique could improve the image quality of the 50%-acquisition-time image to the level of that of the 100%-acquisition-time image. One-hundred-and-eight adult patients were enrolled in this retrospective observational study. The supervised data were divided into nine subsets for nested cross-validation. The mean peak signal-to-noise ratio and structural similarity in the SR-PET image were 31.3 dB and 0.931, respectively. The mean opinion scores of the 50% PET image, SR-PET image, and 100% PET image were 3.41, 3.96, and 4.23 for the lung level, 3.31, 3.80, and 4.27 for the liver level, and 3.08, 3.67, and 3.94 for the bowel level, respectively. Thus, the SR-PET image was more similar to the 100% PET image and subjectively improved the image quality, as compared to the 50% PET image. The use of the SR deep-learning technique can reduce the injected FDG dose and thus lower radiation exposure.
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