Deep Learning-Driven Quantitative Spectroscopic Photoacoustic Imaging for Segmentation and Oxygen Saturation Estimation

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Hauptverfasser: Shang, Ruibo, Jandhyala, Sidhartha, Wu, Yujia, Hoffer-Hawlik, Kevin, Van Namen, Austin, O'Donnell, Matthew, Luke, Geoffrey P.
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author Shang, Ruibo
Jandhyala, Sidhartha
Wu, Yujia
Hoffer-Hawlik, Kevin
Van Namen, Austin
O'Donnell, Matthew
Luke, Geoffrey P.
author_facet Shang, Ruibo
Jandhyala, Sidhartha
Wu, Yujia
Hoffer-Hawlik, Kevin
Van Namen, Austin
O'Donnell, Matthew
Luke, Geoffrey P.
contents Spectroscopic photoacoustic (sPA) imaging can potentially estimate blood oxygenation saturation (sO2) in vivo noninvasively. However, quantitatively accurate results require accurate optical fluence estimates. Robust modeling in heterogeneous tissue, where light with different wavelengths can experience significantly different absorption and scattering, is difficult. In this work, we developed a deep neural network (Hybrid-Net) for sPA imaging to simultaneously estimate sO2 in blood vessels and segment those vessels from surrounding background tissue. sO2 error was minimized only in blood vessels segmented in Hybrid-Net, resulting in more accurate predictions. Hybrid-Net was first trained on simulated sPA data (at 700 nm and 850 nm) representing initial pressure distributions from three-dimensional Monte Carlo simulations of light transport in breast tissue. Then, for experimental verification, the network was retrained on experimental sPA data (at 700 nm and 850 nm) acquired from simple tissue mimicking phantoms with an embedded blood pool. Quantitative measures were used to evaluate Hybrid-Net performance with an averaged segmentation accuracy of >= 0.978 in simulations with varying noise levels (0dB-35dB) and 0.998 in the experiment, and an averaged sO2 mean squared error of <= 0.048 in simulations with varying noise levels (0dB-35dB) and 0.003 in the experiment. Overall, these results show that Hybrid-Net can provide accurate blood oxygenation without estimating the optical fluence, and this study could lead to improvements in in-vivo sO2 estimation.
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spellingShingle Deep Learning-Driven Quantitative Spectroscopic Photoacoustic Imaging for Segmentation and Oxygen Saturation Estimation
Shang, Ruibo
Jandhyala, Sidhartha
Wu, Yujia
Hoffer-Hawlik, Kevin
Van Namen, Austin
O'Donnell, Matthew
Luke, Geoffrey P.
Image and Video Processing
Spectroscopic photoacoustic (sPA) imaging can potentially estimate blood oxygenation saturation (sO2) in vivo noninvasively. However, quantitatively accurate results require accurate optical fluence estimates. Robust modeling in heterogeneous tissue, where light with different wavelengths can experience significantly different absorption and scattering, is difficult. In this work, we developed a deep neural network (Hybrid-Net) for sPA imaging to simultaneously estimate sO2 in blood vessels and segment those vessels from surrounding background tissue. sO2 error was minimized only in blood vessels segmented in Hybrid-Net, resulting in more accurate predictions. Hybrid-Net was first trained on simulated sPA data (at 700 nm and 850 nm) representing initial pressure distributions from three-dimensional Monte Carlo simulations of light transport in breast tissue. Then, for experimental verification, the network was retrained on experimental sPA data (at 700 nm and 850 nm) acquired from simple tissue mimicking phantoms with an embedded blood pool. Quantitative measures were used to evaluate Hybrid-Net performance with an averaged segmentation accuracy of >= 0.978 in simulations with varying noise levels (0dB-35dB) and 0.998 in the experiment, and an averaged sO2 mean squared error of <= 0.048 in simulations with varying noise levels (0dB-35dB) and 0.003 in the experiment. Overall, these results show that Hybrid-Net can provide accurate blood oxygenation without estimating the optical fluence, and this study could lead to improvements in in-vivo sO2 estimation.
title Deep Learning-Driven Quantitative Spectroscopic Photoacoustic Imaging for Segmentation and Oxygen Saturation Estimation
topic Image and Video Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.15394