Optimization of Bayesian Emission tomographic reconstruction for region of interest quantitation
Region of interest (ROI) quantitation is an important task in emission tomography (e.g., positron emission tomography and single photon emission computed tomography). It is essential for exploring clinical factors such as tumor activity, growth rate, and the efficacy of therapeutic interventions. Bayesian methods based on the maximum a posteriori principle (or called penalized maximum likelihood methods) have been developed for emission image reconstructions to deal with the low signal to noise ratio of the emission data. Similar to the filter cut-off frequency in the filtered backprojection method, the smoothing parameter of the image prior in Bayesian reconstruction controls the resolution and noise trade-off and hence affects ROI quantitation. In this paper we present an approach for choosing the optimum smoothing parameter in Bayesian reconstruction for ROI quantitation. Bayesian reconstructions are difficult to analyze because the resolution and noise properties are nonlinear and object-dependent. Building on the recent progress on deriving the approximate expressions for the local impulse response function and the covariance matrix, we derived simplied theoretical expressions for the bias, the variance, and the ensemble mean squared error (EMSE) of the ROI quantitation. One problem in evaluating ROI quantitation is that the truth is often required for calculating the bias. This is overcome by using ensemble distribution of the activity inside the ROI and computing the average EMSE. The resulting expressions allow fast evaluation of the image quality for different smoothing parameters. The optimum smoothing parameter of the image prior can then be selected to minimize the EMSE.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Director, Office of Science, Office of Biological and Environmental Research, Medical Sciences Division; National Institution of Health Grant R01 EB 00393 P01 HL25840 (US)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC03-76SF00098
- OSTI ID:
- 815496
- Report Number(s):
- LBNL-51932; R&D Project: 80ZL01; TRN: US0304632
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: IS&T/SPIE 15th Annual Symposium: Electronics Imaging, Santa Clara, CA (US), 01/20/2003--01/24/2003; Other Information: PBD: 10 Jan 2003
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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