A new, fast, relaxation-free, convergent, hessian-based, ordered-subsets algorithm for emission tomography

Ing Tsung Hsiao*, Anand Rangarajan, Parmeshwar Khurd, Gene Gindi

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Abstract

We propose a fast, convergent, positivity preserving, OS-type (ordered-subsets) maximum likelihood (ML) reconstruction algorithm for emission tomography (ET) which takes into account the Hessian information in the ML Poisson objective. In contrast to recent approaches, our proposed algorithm is fundamentally not based on the well known EM-ML algorithm for ET . Our new algorithm is based on an expansion of the ML objective using a second order Taylor series approximation w.r.t. the projection of the source distribution similar to the approach in [1]. Defining the projection of the source as an independent variable, we construct a new objective function in terms of the source distribution and the projection. This new objective function contains the Hessian information of the original Poisson negative log-likelihood. After using a separable surrogates transformation of the new Hessian-based objective, we derive an ordered subsets, positivity preserving algorithm which is guaranteed to asymptotically reach the maximum of the original ET log-likelihood. Preliminary results show that this new algorithm is about as fast as RAMLA [2] after a few initial iterations. However, in contrast to RAMLA, the new algorithm does not require any user-specified, relaxation parameters.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2004 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging
Subtitle of host publicationMacro to Nano
Pages1408-1411
Number of pages4
StatePublished - 2004
Event2004 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: Macro to Nano - Arlington, VA, United States
Duration: 15 04 200418 04 2004

Publication series

Name2004 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: Macro to Nano
Volume2

Conference

Conference2004 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: Macro to Nano
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityArlington, VA
Period15/04/0418/04/04

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