Score-based diffusion models for diffuse optical tomography with uncertainty quantification
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| author | Schneider, Fabian Mozumder, Meghdoot Tamarov, Konstantin Taghizadeh, Leila Tarvainen, Tanja Helin, Tapio Duong, Duc-Lam |
| author_facet | Schneider, Fabian Mozumder, Meghdoot Tamarov, Konstantin Taghizadeh, Leila Tarvainen, Tanja Helin, Tapio Duong, Duc-Lam |
| contents | Score-based diffusion models are a recently developed framework for posterior sampling in Bayesian inverse problems with a state-of-the-art performance for severely ill-posed problems by leveraging a powerful prior distribution learned from empirical data. Despite generating significant interest especially in the machine-learning community, a thorough study of realistic inverse problems in the presence of modelling error and utilization of physical measurement data is still outstanding. In this work, the framework of unconditional representation for the conditional score function (UCoS) is evaluated for linearized difference imaging in diffuse optical tomography (DOT). DOT uses boundary measurements of near-infrared light to estimate the spatial distribution of absorption and scattering parameters in biological tissues. The problem is highly ill-posed and thus sensitive to noise and modelling errors. We introduce a novel regularization approach that prevents overfitting of the score function by constructing a mixed score composed of a learned and a model-based component. Validation of this approach is done using both simulated and experimental measurement data. The experiments demonstrate that a data-driven prior distribution results in posterior samples with low variance, compared to classical model-based estimation, and centred around the ground truth, even in the context of a highly ill-posed problem and in the presence of modelling errors. |
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| spellingShingle | Score-based diffusion models for diffuse optical tomography with uncertainty quantification Schneider, Fabian Mozumder, Meghdoot Tamarov, Konstantin Taghizadeh, Leila Tarvainen, Tanja Helin, Tapio Duong, Duc-Lam Machine Learning Applications 35R30, 92C55, 62F15, 62G99 Score-based diffusion models are a recently developed framework for posterior sampling in Bayesian inverse problems with a state-of-the-art performance for severely ill-posed problems by leveraging a powerful prior distribution learned from empirical data. Despite generating significant interest especially in the machine-learning community, a thorough study of realistic inverse problems in the presence of modelling error and utilization of physical measurement data is still outstanding. In this work, the framework of unconditional representation for the conditional score function (UCoS) is evaluated for linearized difference imaging in diffuse optical tomography (DOT). DOT uses boundary measurements of near-infrared light to estimate the spatial distribution of absorption and scattering parameters in biological tissues. The problem is highly ill-posed and thus sensitive to noise and modelling errors. We introduce a novel regularization approach that prevents overfitting of the score function by constructing a mixed score composed of a learned and a model-based component. Validation of this approach is done using both simulated and experimental measurement data. The experiments demonstrate that a data-driven prior distribution results in posterior samples with low variance, compared to classical model-based estimation, and centred around the ground truth, even in the context of a highly ill-posed problem and in the presence of modelling errors. |
| title | Score-based diffusion models for diffuse optical tomography with uncertainty quantification |
| topic | Machine Learning Applications 35R30, 92C55, 62F15, 62G99 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.03449 |