Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences, Volume. 17, Issue 3, 2350028(2024)

Triple-path feature transform network for ring-array photoacoustic tomography image reconstruction

Lingyu Ma... Zezheng Qin, Yiming Ma and Mingjian Sun* |Show fewer author(s)
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  • School of Astronautics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, Heilongjiang 150000, P. R. China
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    Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) is a noninvasive emerging imaging method based on the photoacoustic effect, which provides necessary assistance for medical diagnosis. It has the characteristics of large imaging depth and high contrast. However, limited by the equipment cost and reconstruction time requirements, the existing PAI systems distributed with annular array transducers are difficult to take into account both the image quality and the imaging speed. In this paper, a triple-path feature transform network (TFT-Net) for ring-array photoacoustic tomography is proposed to enhance the imaging quality from limited-view and sparse measurement data. Specifically, the network combines the raw photoacoustic pressure signals and conventional linear reconstruction images as input data, and takes the photoacoustic physical model as a prior information to guide the reconstruction process. In addition, to enhance the ability of extracting signal features, the residual block and squeeze and excitation block are introduced into the TFT-Net. For further efficient reconstruction, the final output of photoacoustic signals uses ‘filter-then-upsample’ operation with a pixel-shuffle multiplexer and a max out module. Experiment results on simulated and in-vivo data demonstrate that the constructed TFT-Net can restore the target boundary clearly, reduce background noise, and realize fast and high-quality photoacoustic image reconstruction of limited view with sparse sampling.

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    Lingyu Ma, Zezheng Qin, Yiming Ma, Mingjian Sun. Triple-path feature transform network for ring-array photoacoustic tomography image reconstruction[J]. Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences, 2024, 17(3): 2350028

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    Paper Information

    Category: Research Articles

    Received: Jul. 7, 2023

    Accepted: Sep. 25, 2023

    Published Online: Apr. 26, 2024

    The Author Email: Sun Mingjian (sunmingjian@hit.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1142/S1793545823500281

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