34th Applied Imagery and Pattern Recognition Workshop (AIPR'05)
Hierarchical Bayesian Algorithm for Diffuse Optical Tomography
Washington, DC
October 19-October 21
ISBN: 0-7695-2479-6
Diffuse Optical Tomography (DOT) poses a typical illposed inverse problem with limited number of measurements and inherently low spatial resolution. In this paper, we propose a hierarchical Bayesian approach to improve spatial resolution and quantitative accuracy by using a priori information provided by a secondary high resolution anatomical imaging modality, such as Magnetic Resonance (MR) or X-ray. The proposed hierarchical Bayesian approach allows incorporation of partial a priori knowledge about the noise and unknown optical image models, thereby capturing the function-anatomy correlation effectively. Numerical simulations demonstrate that the proposed method avoids undesirable bias towards anatomical prior information and leads to significantly improved spatial resolution and quantitative accuracy.
Citation:
Murat Guven, Birsen Yazici, Xavier Intes, Britton Chance, "Hierarchical Bayesian Algorithm for Diffuse Optical Tomography," aipr, pp.140-145, 34th Applied Imagery and Pattern Recognition Workshop (AIPR'05), 2005