Stage : generation of dynamic pairs of pristine/noisy-real PET images to train a deep learning algorithm
Encadrements : Antoine Merlet, PhD student, Benoît Presles, PhD, Jean-Marc Vrigneaud, PhD Début du contrat : 01/02/2021
18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is a gold standard for the evaluation of tumour metabolism and is now widely used in medical oncology for cancer detection, staging, and more recently therapy monitoring. The concomitant evaluation of tumour perfusion and tumour metabolism is promising for the monitoring of new therapies targeting both tumour perfusion and viability. However, the development of dynamic FDG PET in clinical practice is challenging, due to the poor spatial resolution and signal to noise ratio of dynamic PET images. For example, classical reconstruction algorithms (MLEM) have shown to produce bias in short-duration frames in dynamic PET studies. Such a bias is very problematic for quantitative imaging, particularly when trying to derive an image-derived input function. Nowadays, new denoising techniques based on deep learning can be used to improve the quality of the PET images, by using either supervised or unsupervised approaches. If supervised methods are used, pairs of pristine/noisy-real PET images are needed to train the network. This is the aim of this internship: generating dynamic pairs of pristine/noisy-real PET images. To do so, a GATE (www.opengatecollaboration.org) modelisation of our PET camera has already been done to simulate/generate static PET images. The main objective of the internship is therefore to make the simulations dynamic. The student will be located in the « Imagerie et Vision Artificielle » (ImViA) in Dijon (France), and will work in close relation with the medical team of the Georges François Leclerc Centre in Dijon (France). Candidates must be engineering or master students in a relevant subject area such as physics, computer science, biomedical engineering or applied mathematics. Applications (including a CV and covering letter outlining your motivation for the position) should be sent to Benoît Presles (benoit.presles at u-bourgogne.fr) and Jean-Marc Vrigneaud (jmvrigneaud at cgfl.fr).
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Closing date: 31th December 2020
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