An accelerated preconditioned proximal gradient algorithm with a generalized Nesterov momentum for PET image reconstruction Journal Article


Authors: Lin, Y.; He, Y.; Ross Schmidtlein, C.; Han, D.
Article Title: An accelerated preconditioned proximal gradient algorithm with a generalized Nesterov momentum for PET image reconstruction
Abstract: This paper presents an accelerated preconditioned proximal gradient algorithm (APPGA) for effectively solving a class of positron emission tomography (PET) image reconstruction models with differentiable regularizers. We establish the convergence of APPGA with the generalized Nesterov (GN) momentum scheme, demonstrating its ability to converge to a minimizer of the objective function with rates of o ( 1 / k2 ω ) and o ( 1 / kω) in terms of the function value and the distance between consecutive iterates, respectively, where ω ∈ ( 0 , 1 ] is the power parameter of the GN momentum. To achieve an efficient algorithm with high-order convergence rate for the higher-order isotropic total variation (ITV) regularized PET image reconstruction model, we replace the ITV term by its smoothed version and subsequently apply APPGA to solve the smoothed model. Numerical results presented in this work indicate that as ω ∈ ( 0 , 1 ] increase, APPGA converges at a progressively faster rate. Furthermore, APPGA exhibits superior performance compared to the PPGA and the preconditioned Krasnoselskii-Mann algorithm. The extension of the GN momentum technique for solving a more complex optimization model with multiple nondifferentiable terms is also discussed. © 2025 IOP Publishing Ltd. All rights, including for text and data mining, AI training, and similar technologies, are reserved.
Keywords: positron emission tomography; photons; image reconstruction; positrons; positron emission; emission tomography; objective functions; total variation; images reconstruction; isotropics; accelerated preconditioned proximal gradient algorithm; function values; gradient algorithm; regularizer; total-variation
Journal Title: Inverse Problems
Volume: 41
Issue: 4
ISSN: 0266-5611
Publisher: IOP Publishing Ltd  
Date Published: 2025-04-01
Start Page: 045002
Language: English
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6420/adbd6a
PROVIDER: scopus
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Notes: Article -- MSK Cancer Center Support Grant (P30 CA008748) acknowledged in PDF -- Source: Wos
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