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Kernel graph filtering—A new method for dynamic sinogram denoising

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  • Shiyao Guo
  • Yuxia Sheng
  • Li Chai
  • Jingxin Zhang

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Low count PET (positron emission tomography) imaging is often desirable in clinical diagnosis and biomedical research, but its images are generally very noisy, due to the very weak signals in the sinograms used in image reconstruction. To address this issue, this paper presents a novel kernel graph filtering method for dynamic PET sinogram denoising. This method is derived from treating the dynamic sinograms as the signals on a graph, and learning the graph adaptively from the kernel principal components of the sinograms to construct a lowpass kernel graph spectrum filter. The kernel graph filter thus obtained is then used to filter the original sinogram time frames to obtain the denoised sinograms for PET image reconstruction. Extensive tests and comparisons on the simulated and real life in-vivo dynamic PET datasets show that the proposed method outperforms the existing methods in sinogram denoising and image enhancement of dynamic PET at all count levels, especially at low count, with a great potential in real life applications of dynamic PET imaging.

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  • Shiyao Guo & Yuxia Sheng & Li Chai & Jingxin Zhang, 2021. "Kernel graph filtering—A new method for dynamic sinogram denoising," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 16(12), pages 1-22, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0260374
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0260374
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    1. Joyita Dutta & Richard M Leahy & Quanzheng Li, 2013. "Non-Local Means Denoising of Dynamic PET Images," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 8(12), pages 1-15, December.
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