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ArticleFundamental research2026

Physics-driven deep learning photoacoustic tomography.

Kang Shen, Kuo Niu, Songde Liu, Yannis M Paulus, Xiaohua Jiang, Chao Tian

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Article in Fundamental research, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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Kang ShenDepartment of Anesthesia, The First Affiliated Hospital of USTC, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China.
Kuo NiuSchool of Engineering Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China.
Songde LiuDepartment of Anesthesia, The First Affiliated Hospital of USTC, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China.
Yannis M PaulusDepartment of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48105, USA.
Xiaohua JiangCenter for Reproduction and Genetics, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the First Affiliated Hospital of USTC, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China.
Chao TianDepartment of Anesthesia, The First Affiliated Hospital of USTC, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China.

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Abstract

Photoacoustic tomography (PAT) is a rapidly emerging biomedical imaging modality. To achieve high-performance imaging, signal acquisition in PAT should ideally meet conditions such as full-view detection and dense sampling. However, these circumstances are rarely met in reality, leading to the ill-posed problem of image reconstruction from incomplete projections. Here we propose a physics-driven deep learning-based filtered back projection (dFBP) framework to address this important challenge. The dFBP network is inspired and constructed based on the physical model of the analytical filtered back projection algorithm and consists of a filtering module, a back-projection module, and a fusion module connected in cascade. The dFBP network is driven by physics and is thus interpretable and easy to train while being highly robust and versatile. Numerical and experimental validation on animals and humans show that dFBP-based PAT can achieve direct signal-to-image transformation with enhanced accuracy and reconstruct high-quality, artifact-suppressed images from sparse-view, limited-view, and acoustic heterogeneity-contaminated projections. The proposed dFBP provides a practical solution for high-performance PAT imaging under non-ideal conditions.

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Deep learningFiltered back projectionImage reconstructionIncomplete projectionsPhotoacoustic tomography

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PMID42272474
PMCPMC13247502

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