Generation of PET Attenuation Map for Whole-Body Time-of-Flight F-18-FDG PET/MRI Using a Deep Neural Network Trained with Simultaneously Reconstructed Activity and Attenuation Maps
- Authors
- Hwang, Donghwi; Kang, Seung Kwan; Kim, Kyeong Yun; Seo, Seongho; Paeng, Tin Chul; Lee, Dong Soo; Lee, Jae Sung
- Issue Date
- 1-Aug-2019
- Publisher
- SOC NUCLEAR MEDICINE INC
- Keywords
- PET/MRI; attenuation correction; deep learning; simultaneous reconstruction
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE, v.60, no.8, pp.1183 - 1189
- Journal Title
- JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE
- Volume
- 60
- Number
- 8
- Start Page
- 1183
- End Page
- 1189
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/gachon/handle/2020.sw.gachon/1153
- DOI
- 10.2967/jnumed.118.219493
- ISSN
- 0161-5505
- Abstract
- We propose a new deep learning-based approach to provide more accurate whole-body PET/MRI attenuation correction than is possible with the Dixon-based 4-segment method. We use activity and attenuation maps estimated using the maximum-likelihood reconstruction of activity and attenuation (MLAA) algorithm as inputs to a convolutional neural network (CNN) to learn a CT-derived attenuation map. Methods: The whole-body F-18-FDG PET/CT scan data of 100 cancer patients (38 men and 62 women; age, 57.3 +/- 14.1 y) were retrospectively used for training and testing the CNN. A modified U-net was trained to predict a CT-derived mu-map (mu-CT) from the MLAA-generated activity distribution (lambda-MLAA) and mu-map (mu-MLAA). We used 1.3 million patches derived from 60 patients' data for training the CNN, data of 20 others were used as a validation set to prevent overfitting, and the data of the other 20 were used as a test set for the CNN performance analysis. The attenuation maps generated using the proposed method (mu-CNN), mu-MLAA, and 4-segment method (mu-segment) were compared with the mu-CT, a ground truth. We also compared the voxelwise correlation between the activity images reconstructed using ordered-subset expectation maximization with the mu-maps, and the SUVs of primary and metastatic bone lesions obtained by drawing regions of interest on the activity images. Results: The CNN generates less noisy attenuation maps and achieves better bone identification than MLAA. The average Dice similarity coefficient for bone regions between mu-CNN and mu-CT was 0.77, which was significantly higher than that between mu-MLAA and mu-CT (0.36). Also, the CNN result showed the best pixel-by-pixel correlation with the CT-based results and remarkably reduced differences in activity maps in comparison to CT-based attenuation correction. Conclusion: The proposed deep neural network produced a more reliable attenuation map for 511-keV photons than the 4-segment method currently used in whole-body PET/MRI studies.
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