Research Article

IRR-Net: A Joint Learning Framework for Image Reconstruction and Recognition of Photoacoustic Tomography

Table 2

Two-step methods for comparison.

Name of method for comparisonImage reconstruction methodClassifier

HH5 DGD + GoogLeNetFive cascaded DGD unitsGoogLeNet
DGD + U-Net+ResNetA single DGD unit followed by a U-NetResNet50

LH1 DGD + GoogLeNetA single DGD unitGoogLeNet
TR + GoogLeNetTRGoogLeNet
TR + AlexNetTRAlexNet
TR + ResNetTRResNet

HL (5 DGD + SVM)Five cascaded DGD unitsSVM

LL (TR + SVM)TRSVM

Note: HH, LH, HL and LL refer to “High-quality reconstruction + High-performance classifier”, “Low-quality reconstruction + High-performance classifier”, “High-quality reconstruction + Low-performance classifier”, and “Low-quality reconstruction + Low-performance classifier,” respectively.