Filtered maximum likelihood expectation maximization based global reconstruction for bioluminescence tomography

Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing
Defu YangXueli Chen

Abstract

The reconstruction of bioluminescence tomography (BLT) is severely ill-posed due to the insufficient measurements and diffuses nature of the light propagation. Predefined permissible source region (PSR) combined with regularization terms is one common strategy to reduce such ill-posedness. However, the region of PSR is usually hard to determine and can be easily affected by subjective consciousness. Hence, we theoretically developed a filtered maximum likelihood expectation maximization (fMLEM) method for BLT. Our method can avoid predefining the PSR and provide a robust and accurate result for global reconstruction. In the method, the simplified spherical harmonics approximation (SPN) was applied to characterize diffuse light propagation in medium, and the statistical estimation-based MLEM algorithm combined with a filter function was used to solve the inverse problem. We systematically demonstrated the performance of our method by the regular geometry- and digital mouse-based simulations and a liver cancer-based in vivo experiment. Graphical abstract The filtered MLEM-based global reconstruction method for BLT.

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Methods Mentioned

BETA
bioluminescence

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fMLEM
MATLAB
IVTCG
Molecular Optical Simulation Environment ( MOSE )
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