PMID- 37456517 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE LR - 20240509 IS - 2573-0436 (Print) IS - 2333-9403 (Electronic) IS - 2333-9403 (Linking) VI - 9 DP - 2023 TI - High-Speed Time-Domain Diffuse Optical Tomography with a Sensitivity Equation-based Neural Network. PG - 459-474 LID - 10.1109/tci.2023.3273423 [doi] AB - Steady progress in time-domain diffuse optical tomography (TD-DOT) technology is allowing for the first time the design of low-cost, compact, and high-performance systems, thus promising more widespread clinical TD-DOT use, such as for recording brain tissue hemodynamics. TD-DOT is known to provide more accurate values of optical properties and physiological parameters compared to its frequency-domain or steady-state counterparts. However, achieving high temporal resolution is still difficult, as solving the inverse problem is computationally demanding, leading to relatively long reconstruction times. The runtime is further compromised by processes that involve 'nontrivial' empirical tuning of reconstruction parameters, which increases complexity and inefficiency. To address these challenges, we present a new reconstruction algorithm that combines a deep-learning approach with our previously introduced sensitivity-equation-based, non-iterative sparse optical reconstruction (SENSOR) code. The new algorithm (called SENSOR-NET) unfolds the iterations of SENSOR into a deep neural network. In this way, we achieve high-resolution sparse reconstruction using only learned parameters, thus eliminating the need to tune parameters prior to reconstruction empirically. Furthermore, once trained, the reconstruction time is not dependent on the number of sources or wavelengths used. We validate our method with numerical and experimental data and show that accurate reconstructions with 1 mm spatial resolution can be obtained in under 20 milliseconds regardless of the number of sources used in the setup. This opens the door for real-time brain monitoring and other high-speed DOT applications. FAU - Wang, Fay AU - Wang F AD - Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027. FAU - Kim, Stephen H AU - Kim SH AD - Department of Biomedical Engineering, New York University - Tandon School of Engineering, New York, NY 10001. FAU - Zhao, Yongyi AU - Zhao Y AD - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005. FAU - Raghuram, Ankit AU - Raghuram A AD - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005. FAU - Veeraraghavan, Ashok AU - Veeraraghavan A AD - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005. FAU - Robinson, Jacob AU - Robinson J AD - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005. FAU - Hielscher, Andreas H AU - Hielscher AH AD - Department of Biomedical Engineering, New York University - Tandon School of Engineering, New York, NY 10001. LA - eng GR - T15 LM007093/LM/NLM NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article DEP - 20230508 PL - United States TA - IEEE Trans Comput Imaging JT - IEEE transactions on computational imaging JID - 101660833 PMC - PMC10348778 MID - NIHMS1902768 OTO - NOTNLM OT - Deep learning OT - diffuse optics OT - image reconstruction OT - inverse problem OT - sensitivity equation OT - sparse image reconstruction EDAT- 2023/07/17 06:42 MHDA- 2023/07/17 06:43 PMCR- 2024/05/08 CRDT- 2023/07/17 04:24 PHST- 2023/07/17 06:43 [medline] PHST- 2023/07/17 06:42 [pubmed] PHST- 2023/07/17 04:24 [entrez] PHST- 2024/05/08 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.1109/tci.2023.3273423 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - IEEE Trans Comput Imaging. 2023;9:459-474. doi: 10.1109/tci.2023.3273423. Epub 2023 May 8.