Estimation and statistical bounds for three-dimensional polar shapes in diffuse optical tomography.

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Voxel-based reconstructions in diffuse optical tomography (DOT) using a quadratic regularization functional tend to produce very smooth images due to the attenuation of high spatial frequencies. This then causes difficulty in estimating the spatial extent and contrast of anomalous regions such as tumors. Given an assumption that the target image is piecewise constant, we can employ a parametric model to estimate the boundaries and contrast of an inhomogeneity directly. In this paper, we describe a method to directly reconstruct such a shape boundary from diffuse optical measurements. We parameterized the object boundary using a spherical harmonic basis, and derived a method to compute sensitivities of measurements with respect to shape parameters. We introduced a centroid constraint to ensure uniqueness of the combined shape/center parameter estimate, and a projected Newton method was utilized to optimize the object center position and shape parameters simultaneously. Using the shape Jacobian, we also computed the Cramér-Rao lower bound on the theoretical estimator accuracy given a particular measurement configuration, object shape, and level of measurement noise. Knowledge of the shape sensitivity matrix and of the measurement noise variance allows us to visualize the shape uncertainty region in three dimensions, giving a confidence region for our shape estimate. We have implemented our shape reconstruction method, using a finite-difference-based forward model to compute the forward and adjoint fields. Reconstruction results are shown for a number of simulated target shapes, and we investigate the problem of model order selection using realistic levels of measurement noise. Assuming a signal-to-noise ratio in the amplitude measurements of 40 dB and a standard deviation in the phase measurements of 0.1 degrees , we are able to estimate an object represented with an eighth-order spherical harmonic model having an absorption contrast of 0.15 cm(-1) and a volume of 4.82 cm(3) with errors of less than 10% in object volume and absorption contrast. We also investigate the robustness of our shape-based reconstruction approach to a violation of the assumption that the medium is purely piecewise constant.

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Journal: IEEE transactions on medical imaging

VOLUME: 27

Page Numbers: 752-65

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ISSN: 0278-0062

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MONTH: Jun

YEAR: 2008

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