Seyoung Jeon

Tagged MRI motion correction in simultaneous PET/MRI significantly improves lesion detection compared with respiratory gating and no motion correction while reducing radiation dose. In vivo primate and rabbit studies confirmed the improvement in PET image quality and provide the rationale for evaluation in simultaneous whole-body PET/MRI clinical studies.

Nonrigid image registration is an important task for many medical imaging applications. In particular, for radiation oncology it is desirable to track respiratory motion for thoracic cancer treatment. B-splines are convenient for modeling nonrigid deformations, but ensuring invertibility can be a challenge. This paper describes sufficient conditions for local invertibility of deformations based on B-spline bases. These sufficient conditions can be used with constrained optimization to enforce lo

Compensating for the collimator-detector response (CDR) in SPECT is important for accurate quantification. The CDR consists of both a geometric response and a septal penetration and collimator scatter response. The geometric response can be modeled analytically and is often used for modeling the whole CDR if the geometric response dominates. However, for radionuclides that emit medium or high-energy photons such as I-131, the septal penetration and collimator scatter response is significant and

Electrocardiogram (ECG) is a promising biometric. There has been much research on ECG based user authentication and identification, but there have been few works to investigate ECG biometrics for stand-alone wearable ECG sensors, for quick response time using a single pulse ECG, and for small wearable devices that may have limited access to others' ECG information.

The ordered subset expectation maximization (OSEM) algorithm approximates the gradient of a likelihood function using a subset of projections instead of using all projections so that fast image reconstruction is possible for emission and transmission tomography such as SPECT, PET, and CT. However, OSEM does not significantly accelerate reconstruction with computationally expensive regularizers such as patch-based nonlocal (NL) regularizers, because the regularizer gradient is evaluated for every

Motion-compensated image reconstruction (MCIR) methods incorporate motion models to improve image quality in the presence of motion. MCIR methods differ in terms of how they use motion information and they have been well studied separately. However, there have been less theoretical comparisions of different MCIR methods. This paper compares the theoretical noise properties of three popular MCIR methods assuming known nonrigid motion. We show the relationship among three MCIR methods-motion-compe

Electrocardiogram (ECG) has been demonstrated as a promising biometric for user authentication or classification. However, most of the previous works on ECG biometrics dealt with more than five ECG pulses at once, which will require at least a few seconds to acquire. Moreover, many of them investigated classification systems that require ECG signals of many people for effective dimensionality reduction methods such as PCA or for powerful classifiers such as SVM. In this article, we consider fast

Motion artifacts are a significant issue in medical image reconstruction. There are many methods for incorporating motion information into image reconstruction. However, there are fewer studies that focus on deformation regularization in motioncompensated image reconstruction. The usual choice for deformation regularization has been penalty functions based on the assumption that tissues are elastic. In the image registration field, there have been some methods proposed that impose deformation in

Many motion-compensated image reconstruction (MCIR) methods have been proposed to correct for subject motion in medical imaging. MCIR methods incorporate motion models to improve image quality by reducing motion artifacts and noise. This paper analyzes the spatial resolution properties of MCIR methods and shows that nonrigid local motion can lead to nonuniform and anisotropic spatial resolution for conventional quadratic regularizers. This undesirable property is akin to the known effects of int

Quantitative SPECT techniques are important for many applications including internal emitter therapy dosimetry where accurate estimation of total target activity and activity distribution within targets are both potentially important for dose–response evaluations. We investigated non-local means (NLM) post-reconstruction filtering for accurate I-131 SPECT estimation of both total target activity and the 3D activity distribution. We first investigated activity estimation versus number of ordered-

Recently, non-local means (NLM) methods for both image denoising and inverse problems have shown promising results in image processing and medical imaging. Moreover, some researchers have also shown that using additional information with low noise and/or high resolution for these problems can improve the image quality further. We investigated several NLM methods including NLM filters and NLM regularizers with and without CT side information for 1-131 SPECT image reconstruction. We compared two d

B-splines are a convenient tool for nonrigid registration, but ensuring invertibility can be challenge. This paper describes a new penalty method that is devised to enforce a sufficient condition for local invertibility and smoothness of nth order B-spline based deformations. Traditional direct Jacobian penalty methods penalize negative Jacobian determinant values only at grid points. In contrast, our new penalty method enforces the sufficient condition for invertibility directly on the B-spline

Recent advances in TOF PET joint estimation of activity and attenuation showed that activity and attenuation can be determined up to a global constant scale without severe crosstalk. MLAA was first proposed to estimate activity and attenuation map simultaneously, and then MLACF was developed to estimate activity and attenuation compensation factor (ACF). MLAA incorporated prior knowledge on the zero attenuation value outside body area to determine global scalar, but was slow to converge. MLACF c

Quantitative yttrium-90 (Y-90) SPECT imaging is challenging due to the nature of Y-90, an almost pure beta emitter that is associated with a continuous spectrum of bremsstrahlung photons that have a relatively low yield. This paper proposes joint spectral reconstruction (JSR), a novel bremsstrahlung SPECT reconstruction method that uses multiple narrow acquisition windows with accurate multi-band forward modeling to cover a wide range of the energy spectrum. Theoretical analyses using Fisher inf