A review on medical imaging synthesis using deep learning and its clinical applications

T Wang, Y Lei, Y Fu, JF Wynne… - Journal of applied …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This paper reviewed the deep learning‐based studies for medical imaging synthesis and its
clinical application. Specifically, we summarized the recent developments of deep learning …

A review of deep learning based methods for medical image multi-organ segmentation

Y Fu, Y Lei, T Wang, WJ Curran, T Liu, X Yang - Physica Medica, 2021 - Elsevier
Deep learning has revolutionized image processing and achieved the-state-of-art
performance in many medical image segmentation tasks. Many deep learning-based …

MRI‐only based synthetic CT generation using dense cycle consistent generative adversarial networks

Y Lei, J Harms, T Wang, Y Liu, HK Shu, AB Jani… - Medical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Automated synthetic computed tomography (sCT) generation based on magnetic
resonance imaging (MRI) images would allow for MRI‐only based treatment planning in …

Hybrid total-body pet scanners—current status and future perspectives

V Nadig, K Herrmann, FM Mottaghy… - European journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Purpose Since the 1990s, PET has been successfully combined with MR or CT systems. In
the past years, especially PET systems have seen a trend towards an enlarged axial field of …

Deep learning-based attenuation correction in the absence of structural information for whole-body positron emission tomography imaging

X Dong, Y Lei, T Wang, K Higgins, T Liu… - Physics in Medicine …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Deriving accurate structural maps for attenuation correction (AC) of whole-body positron
emission tomography (PET) remains challenging. Common problems include truncation …

Synthetic CT generation from non-attenuation corrected PET images for whole-body PET imaging

X Dong, T Wang, Y Lei, K Higgins, T Liu… - Physics in Medicine …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Attenuation correction (AC) of PET/MRI faces challenges including inter-scan motion, image
artifacts such as truncation and distortion, and erroneous transformation of structural voxel …

Whole-body PET estimation from low count statistics using cycle-consistent generative adversarial networks

Y Lei, X Dong, T Wang, K Higgins, T Liu… - Physics in Medicine …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Lowering either the administered activity or scan time is desirable in PET imaging as it
decreases the patient's radiation burden or improves patient comfort and reduces motion …

Machine learning in quantitative PET: A review of attenuation correction and low-count image reconstruction methods

T Wang, Y Lei, Y Fu, WJ Curran, T Liu, JA Nye, X Yang - Physica Medica, 2020 - Elsevier
The rapid expansion of machine learning is offering a new wave of opportunities for nuclear
medicine. This paper reviews applications of machine learning for the study of attenuation …

MRI-based treatment planning for proton radiotherapy: dosimetric validation of a deep learning-based liver synthetic CT generation method

Y Liu, Y Lei, Y Wang, T Wang, L Ren… - Physics in Medicine …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has been widely used in combination with computed
tomography (CT) radiation therapy because MRI improves the accuracy and reliability of …

Evaluation of a deep learning-based pelvic synthetic CT generation technique for MRI-based prostate proton treatment planning

Y Liu, Y Lei, Y Wang, G Shafai-Erfani… - Physics in Medicine …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The purpose of this work is to validate the application of a deep learning-based method for
pelvic synthetic CT (sCT) generation that can be used for prostate proton beam therapy …