Laplace deconvolution on the basis of time domain data and its application to dynamic contrast-enhanced imaging

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DOI10.1111/RSSB.12159zbMATH Open1414.62292arXiv1405.7107OpenAlexW2291716569MaRDI QIDQ5378156FDOQ5378156


Authors: F. Comte, Charles-André Cuenod, Marianna Pensky, Yves Rozenholc Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 12 June 2019

Published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B: Statistical Methodology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In the present paper we consider the problem of Laplace deconvolution with noisy discrete non-equally spaced observations on a finite time interval. We propose a new method for Laplace deconvolution which is based on expansions of the convolution kernel, the unknown function and the observed signal over Laguerre functions basis (which acts as a surrogate eigenfunction basis of the Laplace convolution operator) using regression setting. The expansion results in a small system of linear equations with the matrix of the system being triangular and Toeplitz. Due to this triangular structure, there is a common number m of terms in the function expansions to control, which is realized via complexity penalty. The advantage of this methodology is that it leads to very fast computations, produces no boundary effects due to extension at zero and cut-off at T and provides an estimator with the risk within a logarithmic factor of the oracle risk. We emphasize that, in the present paper, we consider the true observational model with possibly nonequispaced observations which are available on a finite interval of length T which appears in many different contexts, and account for the bias associated with this model (which is not present when Tightarrowinfty). The study is motivated by perfusion imaging using a short injection of contrast agent, a procedure which is applied for medical assessment of micro-circulation within tissues such as cancerous tumors. Presence of a tuning parameter a allows to choose the most advantageous time units, so that both the kernel and the unknown right hand side of the equation are well represented for the deconvolution. The methodology is illustrated by an extensive simulation study and a real data example which confirms that the proposed technique is fast, efficient, accurate, usable from a practical point of view and very competitive.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.7107




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