{"title":"Intelligent skin-removal photoacoustic computed tomography for human based on deep learning","authors":"Ning Wang, Tao Chen, Chengbo Liu, Jing Meng","doi":"10.1002/jbio.202400197","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>Photoacoustic computed tomography (PACT) has centimeter-level imaging ability and can be used to detect the human body. However, strong photoacoustic signals from skin cover deep tissue information, hindering the frontal display and analysis of photoacoustic images of deep regions of interest. Therefore, we propose a 2.5 D deep learning model based on feature pyramid structure and single-type skin annotation to extract the skin region, and design a mask generation algorithm to remove skin automatically. PACT imaging experiments on the human periphery blood vessel verified the correctness our proposed skin-removal method. Compared with previous studies, our method exhibits high robustness to the uneven illumination, irregular skin boundary, and reconstruction artifacts in the images, and the reconstruction errors of PACT images decreased by 20% ~ 90% with a 1.65 dB improvement in the signal-to-noise ratio at the same time. This study may provide a promising way for high-definition PACT imaging of deep tissues.</p>","PeriodicalId":184,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Biophotonics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0000,"publicationDate":"2024-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Biophotonics","FirstCategoryId":"101","ListUrlMain":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jbio.202400197","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"BIOCHEMICAL RESEARCH METHODS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Photoacoustic computed tomography (PACT) has centimeter-level imaging ability and can be used to detect the human body. However, strong photoacoustic signals from skin cover deep tissue information, hindering the frontal display and analysis of photoacoustic images of deep regions of interest. Therefore, we propose a 2.5 D deep learning model based on feature pyramid structure and single-type skin annotation to extract the skin region, and design a mask generation algorithm to remove skin automatically. PACT imaging experiments on the human periphery blood vessel verified the correctness our proposed skin-removal method. Compared with previous studies, our method exhibits high robustness to the uneven illumination, irregular skin boundary, and reconstruction artifacts in the images, and the reconstruction errors of PACT images decreased by 20% ~ 90% with a 1.65 dB improvement in the signal-to-noise ratio at the same time. This study may provide a promising way for high-definition PACT imaging of deep tissues.
期刊介绍:
The first international journal dedicated to publishing reviews and original articles from this exciting field, the Journal of Biophotonics covers the broad range of research on interactions between light and biological material. The journal offers a platform where the physicist communicates with the biologist and where the clinical practitioner learns about the latest tools for the diagnosis of diseases. As such, the journal is highly interdisciplinary, publishing cutting edge research in the fields of life sciences, medicine, physics, chemistry, and engineering. The coverage extends from fundamental research to specific developments, while also including the latest applications.