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8 March 2007 Combining a wavelet transform with a channelized Hotelling observer for tumor detection in 3D PET oncology imaging
Carole Lartizien, Sandrine Tomei, Voichita Maxim, Christophe Odet
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Abstract
This study evaluates new observer models for 3D whole-body Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging based on a wavelet sub-band decomposition and compares them with the classical constant-Q CHO model. Our final goal is to develop an original method that performs guided detection of abnormal activity foci in PET oncology imaging based on these new observer models. This computer-aided diagnostic method would highly benefit to clinicians for diagnostic purpose and to biologists for massive screening of rodents populations in molecular imaging. Method: We have previously shown good correlation of the channelized Hotelling observer (CHO) using a constant-Q model with human observer performance for 3D PET oncology imaging. We propose an alternate method based on combining a CHO observer with a wavelet sub-band decomposition of the image and we compare it to the standard CHO implementation. This method performs an undecimated transform using a biorthogonal B-spline 4/4 wavelet basis to extract the features set for input to the Hotelling observer. This work is based on simulated 3D PET images of an extended MCAT phantom with randomly located lesions. We compare three evaluation criteria: classification performance using the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), computation efficiency and visual quality of the derived 3D maps of the decision variable &lgr;. The SNR is estimated on a series of test images for a variable number of training images for both observers. Results: Results show that the maximum SNR is higher with the constant-Q CHO observer, especially for targets located in the liver, and that it is reached with a smaller number of training images. However, preliminary analysis indicates that the visual quality of the 3D maps of the decision variable &lgr; is higher with the wavelet-based CHO and the computation time to derive a 3D &lgr;-map is about 350 times shorter than for the standard CHO. This suggests that the wavelet-CHO observer is a good candidate for use in our guided detection method.
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Carole Lartizien, Sandrine Tomei, Voichita Maxim, and Christophe Odet "Combining a wavelet transform with a channelized Hotelling observer for tumor detection in 3D PET oncology imaging", Proc. SPIE 6515, Medical Imaging 2007: Image Perception, Observer Performance, and Technology Assessment, 651519 (8 March 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.706753
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KEYWORDS
3D image processing

3D modeling

Positron emission tomography

Signal to noise ratio

Wavelets

3D acquisition

Liver

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