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ArticlePhotoacoustics2022

Photoacoustic image synthesis with generative adversarial networks.

Melanie Schellenberg, Janek Gröhl, Kris K Dreher, Jan-Hinrich Nölke, Niklas Holzwarth, Minu D Tizabi, Alexander Seitel, Lena Maier-Hein

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Article in Photoacoustics, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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8 authors.

Melanie SchellenbergIntelligent Medical Systems (IMSY), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.
Janek GröhlIntelligent Medical Systems (IMSY), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.
Kris K DreherIntelligent Medical Systems (IMSY), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.
Jan-Hinrich NölkeIntelligent Medical Systems (IMSY), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.
Niklas HolzwarthIntelligent Medical Systems (IMSY), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.
Minu D TizabiIntelligent Medical Systems (IMSY), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.
Alexander SeitelIntelligent Medical Systems (IMSY), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.
Lena Maier-HeinIntelligent Medical Systems (IMSY), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Photoacoustic tomography (PAT) has the potential to recover morphological and functional tissue properties with high spatial resolution. However, previous attempts to solve the optical inverse problem with supervised machine learning were hampered by the absence of labeled reference data. While this bottleneck has been tackled by simulating training data, the domain gap between real and simulated images remains an unsolved challenge. We propose a novel approach to PAT image synthesis that involves subdividing the challenge of generating plausible simulations into two disjoint problems: (1) Probabilistic generation of realistic tissue morphology, and (2) pixel-wise assignment of corresponding optical and acoustic properties. The former is achieved with Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) trained on semantically annotated medical imaging data. According to a validation study on a downstream task our approach yields more realistic synthetic images than the traditional model-based approach and could therefore become a fundamental step for deep learning-based quantitative PAT (qPAT).

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Deep learningGenerative adversarial networksOptoacoustic imagingOptoacoustic tomographyPhotoacoustic imagingPhotoacoustic tomographySynthetic data

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