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- Adler, Jonas, et al.
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Task adapted reconstruction for inverse problems
- 2022
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In: Inverse Problems. - : IOP Publishing. - 0266-5611 .- 1361-6420. ; 38:7
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The paper considers the problem of performing a post-processing task defined on a model parameter that is only observed indirectly through noisy data in an ill-posed inverse problem. A key aspect is to formalize the steps of reconstruction and post-processing as appropriate estimators (non-randomized decision rules) in statistical estimation problems. The implementation makes use of (deep) neural networks to provide a differentiable parametrization of the family of estimators for both steps. These networks are combined and jointly trained against suitable supervised training data in order to minimize a joint differentiable loss function, resulting in an end-to-end task adapted reconstruction method. The suggested framework is generic, yet adaptable, with a plug-and-play structure for adjusting both the inverse problem and the post-processing task at hand. More precisely, the data model (forward operator and statistical model of the noise) associated with the inverse problem is exchangeable, e.g., by using neural network architecture given by a learned iterative method. Furthermore, any post-processing that can be encoded as a trainable neural network can be used. The approach is demonstrated on joint tomographic image reconstruction, classification and joint tomographic image reconstruction segmentation.
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- Arridge, Simon, et al.
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Solving inverse problems using data-driven models
- 2019
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In: Acta Numerica. - : Cambridge University Press. - 0962-4929 .- 1474-0508. ; 28, s. 1-174
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Recent research in inverse problems seeks to develop a mathematically coherent foundation for combining data-driven models, and in particular those based on deep learning, with domain-specific knowledge contained in physical-analytical models. The focus is on solving ill-posed inverse problems that are at the core of many challenging applications in the natural sciences, medicine and life sciences, as well as in engineering and industrial applications. This survey paper aims to give an account of some of the main contributions in data-driven inverse problems.
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- Buddenkotte, Thomas, et al.
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Deep learning-based segmentation of multisite disease in ovarian cancer
- 2023
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In: EUROPEAN RADIOLOGY EXPERIMENTAL. - : Springer Nature. - 2509-9280. ; 7:1
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Purpose: To determine if pelvic/ovarian and omental lesions of ovarian cancer can be reliably segmented on computed tomography (CT) using fully automated deep learning-based methods.Methods: A deep learning model for the two most common disease sites of high-grade serous ovarian cancer lesions (pelvis/ovaries and omentum) was developed and compared against the well-established “no-new-Net” framework and unrevised trainee radiologist segmentations. A total of 451 CT scans collected from four different institutions were used for training (n = 276), evaluation (n = 104) and testing (n = 71) of the methods. The performance was evaluated using the Dice similarity coefficient (DSC) and compared using a Wilcoxon test.Results: Our model outperformed no-new-Net for the pelvic/ovarian lesions in cross-validation, on the evaluation and test set by a significant margin (p values being 4 × 10–7, 3 × 10–4, 4 × 10–2, respectively), and for the omental lesions on the evaluation set (p = 1 × 10–3). Our model did not perform significantly differently in segmenting pelvic/ovarian lesions (p = 0.371) compared to a trainee radiologist. On an independent test set, the model achieved a DSC performance of 71 ± 20 (mean ± standard deviation) for pelvic/ovarian and 61 ± 24 for omental lesions.Conclusion: Automated ovarian cancer segmentation on CT scans using deep neural networks is feasible and achieves performance close to a trainee-level radiologist for pelvic/ovarian lesions.Relevance statement: Automated segmentation of ovarian cancer may be used by clinicians for CT-based volumetric assessments and researchers for building complex analysis pipelines.Key points:The first automated approach for pelvic/ovarian and omental ovarian cancer lesion segmentation on CT images has been presented.Automated segmentation of ovarian cancer lesions can be comparable with manual segmentation of trainee radiologists.Careful hyperparameter tuning can provide models significantly outperforming strong state-of-the-art baselines. Graphical Abstract: [Figure not available: see fulltext.]
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- Diepeveen, Willem, et al.
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Regularizing Orientation Estimation in Cryogenic Electron Microscopy Three-Dimensional Map Refinement through Measure-Based Lifting over Riemannian Manifolds
- 2023
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In: SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences. - : Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM). - 1936-4954. ; 16:3, s. 1440-1490
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Motivated by the trade-off between noise robustness and data consistency for joint three-imensional (3D) map reconstruction and rotation estimation in single particle cryogenic-electron microscopy (Cryo-EM), we propose ellipsoidal support lifting (ESL), a measure-based lifting scheme for regularizing and approximating the global minimizer of a smooth function over a Riemannian manifold. Under a uniqueness assumption on the minimizer we show several theoretical results, in particular well-posedness of the method and an error bound due to the induced bias with respect to the global minimizer. Additionally, we use the developed theory to integrate the measure-based lifting scheme into an alternating update method for joint homogeneous 3D map reconstruction and rotation estimation, where typically tens of thousands of manifold-valued minimization problems have to be solved and where regularization is necessary because of the high noise levels in the data. The joint recovery method is used to test both the theoretical predictions and algorithmic performance through numerical experiments with Cryo-EM data. In particular, the induced bias due to the regularizing effect of ESL empirically estimates better rotations, i.e., rotations closer to the ground truth, than global optimization would.
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- Esteve-Yague, Carlos, et al.
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Spectral decomposition of atomic structures in heterogeneous cryo-EM
- 2023
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In: Inverse Problems. - : IOP Publishing. - 0266-5611 .- 1361-6420. ; 39:3, s. 034003-
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- We consider the problem of recovering the three-dimensional atomic structure of a flexible macromolecule from a heterogeneous cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) dataset. The dataset contains noisy tomographic projections of the electrostatic potential of the macromolecule, taken from different viewing directions, and in the heterogeneous case, each cryo-EM image corresponds to a different conformation of the macromolecule. Under the assumption that the macromolecule can be modelled as a chain, or discrete curve (as it is for instance the case for a protein backbone with a single chain of amino-acids), we introduce a method to estimate the deformation of the atomic model with respect to a given conformation, which is assumed to be known a priori. Our method consists on estimating the torsion and bond angles of the atomic model in each conformation as a linear combination of the eigenfunctions of the Laplace operator in the manifold of conformations. These eigenfunctions can be approximated by means of a well-known technique in manifold learning, based on the construction of a graph Laplacian using the cryo-EM dataset. Finally, we test our approach with synthetic datasets, for which we recover the atomic model of two-dimensional and three-dimensional flexible structures from simulated cryo-EM images.
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- Kimanius, Dari, et al.
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Exploiting prior knowledge about biological macromolecules in cryo-EM structure determination
- 2021
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In: IUCrJ. - : International Union of Crystallography (IUCr). - 2052-2525. ; 8, s. 60-75
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Three-dimensional reconstruction of the electron-scattering potential of biological macromolecules from electron cryo-microscopy (cryo-EM) projection images is an ill-posed problem. The most popular cryo-EM software solutions to date rely on a regularization approach that is based on the prior assumption that the scattering potential varies smoothly over three-dimensional space. Although this approach has been hugely successful in recent years, the amount of prior knowledge that it exploits compares unfavorably with the knowledge about biological structures that has been accumulated over decades of research in structural biology. Here, a regularization framework for cryo-EM structure determination is presented that exploits prior knowledge about biological structures through a convolutional neural network that is trained on known macromolecular structures. This neural network is inserted into the iterative cryo-EM structure-determination process through an approach that is inspired by regularization by denoising. It is shown that the new regularization approach yields better reconstructions than the current state of the art for simulated data, and options to extend this work for application to experimental cryo-EM data are discussed.
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- Mukherjee, Subhadip, et al.
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Learned Reconstruction Methods With Convergence Guarantees : A survey of concepts and applications
- 2023
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In: IEEE signal processing magazine (Print). - : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). - 1053-5888 .- 1558-0792. ; 40:1, s. 164-182
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In recent years, deep learning has achieved remarkable empirical success for image reconstruction. This has catalyzed an ongoing quest for the precise characterization of the correctness and reliability of data-driven methods in critical use cases, for instance, in medical imaging. Notwithstanding the excellent performance and efficacy of deep learning-based methods, concerns have been raised regarding the approaches' stability, or lack thereof, with serious practical implications. Significant advances have been made in recent years to unravel the inner workings of data-driven image recovery methods, challenging their widely perceived black-box nature. In this article, we specify relevant notions of convergence for data-driven image reconstruction, which forms the basis of a survey of learned methods with mathematically rigorous reconstruction guarantees. An example that is highlighted is the role of input-convex neural networks (ICNNs), offering the possibility to combine the power of deep learning with classical convex regularization theory for devising methods that are provably convergent. This survey article is aimed at both methodological researchers seeking to advance the frontiers of our understanding of data-driven image reconstruction methods as well as practitioners by providing an accessible description of useful convergence concepts and by placing some of the existing empirical practices on a solid mathematical foundation.
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- Sanchez, Lorena Escudero, et al.
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Integrating Artificial Intelligence Tools in the Clinical Research Setting : The Ovarian Cancer Use Case
- 2023
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In: Diagnostics. - : MDPI. - 2075-4418. ; 13:17
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Artificial intelligence (AI) methods applied to healthcare problems have shown enormous potential to alleviate the burden of health services worldwide and to improve the accuracy and reproducibility of predictions. In particular, developments in computer vision are creating a paradigm shift in the analysis of radiological images, where AI tools are already capable of automatically detecting and precisely delineating tumours. However, such tools are generally developed in technical departments that continue to be siloed from where the real benefit would be achieved with their usage. Significant effort still needs to be made to make these advancements available, first in academic clinical research and ultimately in the clinical setting. In this paper, we demonstrate a prototype pipeline based entirely on open-source software and free of cost to bridge this gap, simplifying the integration of tools and models developed within the AI community into the clinical research setting, ensuring an accessible platform with visualisation applications that allow end-users such as radiologists to view and interact with the outcome of these AI tools.
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