537 research outputs found
Approximate k-space models and Deep Learning for fast photoacoustic reconstruction
We present a framework for accelerated iterative reconstructions using a fast
and approximate forward model that is based on k-space methods for
photoacoustic tomography. The approximate model introduces aliasing artefacts
in the gradient information for the iterative reconstruction, but these
artefacts are highly structured and we can train a CNN that can use the
approximate information to perform an iterative reconstruction. We show
feasibility of the method for human in-vivo measurements in a limited-view
geometry. The proposed method is able to produce superior results to total
variation reconstructions with a speed-up of 32 times
Model based learning for accelerated, limited-view 3D photoacoustic tomography
Recent advances in deep learning for tomographic reconstructions have shown
great potential to create accurate and high quality images with a considerable
speed-up. In this work we present a deep neural network that is specifically
designed to provide high resolution 3D images from restricted photoacoustic
measurements. The network is designed to represent an iterative scheme and
incorporates gradient information of the data fit to compensate for limited
view artefacts. Due to the high complexity of the photoacoustic forward
operator, we separate training and computation of the gradient information. A
suitable prior for the desired image structures is learned as part of the
training. The resulting network is trained and tested on a set of segmented
vessels from lung CT scans and then applied to in-vivo photoacoustic
measurement data
Enhancing Compressed Sensing 4D Photoacoustic Tomography by Simultaneous Motion Estimation
A crucial limitation of current high-resolution 3D photoacoustic tomography
(PAT) devices that employ sequential scanning is their long acquisition time.
In previous work, we demonstrated how to use compressed sensing techniques to
improve upon this: images with good spatial resolution and contrast can be
obtained from suitably sub-sampled PAT data acquired by novel acoustic scanning
systems if sparsity-constrained image reconstruction techniques such as total
variation regularization are used. Now, we show how a further increase of image
quality can be achieved for imaging dynamic processes in living tissue (4D
PAT). The key idea is to exploit the additional temporal redundancy of the data
by coupling the previously used spatial image reconstruction models with
sparsity-constrained motion estimation models. While simulated data from a
two-dimensional numerical phantom will be used to illustrate the main
properties of this recently developed
joint-image-reconstruction-and-motion-estimation framework, measured data from
a dynamic experimental phantom will also be used to demonstrate their potential
for challenging, large-scale, real-world, three-dimensional scenarios. The
latter only becomes feasible if a carefully designed combination of tailored
optimization schemes is employed, which we describe and examine in more detail
Deep learning versus -minimization for compressed sensing photoacoustic tomography
We investigate compressed sensing (CS) techniques for reducing the number of
measurements in photoacoustic tomography (PAT). High resolution imaging from CS
data requires particular image reconstruction algorithms. The most established
reconstruction techniques for that purpose use sparsity and
-minimization. Recently, deep learning appeared as a new paradigm for
CS and other inverse problems. In this paper, we compare a recently invented
joint -minimization algorithm with two deep learning methods, namely a
residual network and an approximate nullspace network. We present numerical
results showing that all developed techniques perform well for deterministic
sparse measurements as well as for random Bernoulli measurements. For the
deterministic sampling, deep learning shows more accurate results, whereas for
Bernoulli measurements the -minimization algorithm performs best.
Comparing the implemented deep learning approaches, we show that the nullspace
network uniformly outperforms the residual network in terms of the mean squared
error (MSE).Comment: This work has been presented at the Joint Photoacoustics Session with
the 2018 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Kobe, October 22-25, 201
Single-pixel camera photoacoustic tomography
Since it was first demonstrated more than a decade ago, the single-pixel camera concept has been used in numerous applications in which it is necessary or advantageous to reduce the channel count, cost, or data volume. Here, three-dimensional (3-D), compressed-sensing photoacoustic tomography (PAT) is demonstrated experimentally using a single-pixel camera. A large area collimated laser beam is reflected from a planar Fabry-Pérot ultrasound sensor onto a digital micromirror device, which patterns the light using a scrambled Hadamard basis before it is collected into a single photodetector. In this way, inner products of the Hadamard patterns and the distribution of thickness changes of the FP sensor-induced by the photoacoustic waves-are recorded. The initial distribution of acoustic pressure giving rise to those photoacoustic waves is recovered directly from the measured signals using an accelerated proximal gradient-type algorithm to solve a model-based minimization with total variation regularization. Using this approach, it is shown that 3-D PAT of imaging phantoms can be obtained with compression rates as low as 10%. Compressed sensing approaches to photoacoustic imaging, such as this, have the potential to reduce the data acquisition time as well as the volume of data it is necessary to acquire, both of which are becoming increasingly important in the drive for faster imaging systems giving higher resolution images with larger fields of view
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