为不同扫描任务定制采样策略,提升低剂量CT图像质量。
Learning Task-Specific Sampling Strategy for Sparse-View CT Reconstruction
- 用多任务学习训练统一重建网络,为每类任务生成专属采样策略。
- 在多种扫描类型上显著减少伪影,下游任务性能提升明显。
- 适合临床诊断需求,可灵活适配新任务无需重训练模型。
稀疏视角计算机断层成像(SVCT)可实现低剂量与快速成像,但存在严重伪影问题。优化采样策略是提升图像质量的关键方法。然而,现有方法通常为所有扫描类型设计通用采样策略,忽略了不同扫描任务(如胸部扫描)或下游临床应用(如疾病诊断)对最优采样的差异性。同一策略在不同任务间表现可能不一。为此,我们提出一种深度学习框架,通过多任务学习训练统一重建网络,同时为每个具体任务定制最优采样策略。该方法使各类扫描均能采用针对性采样策略,有效提升SVCT图像质量,并增强下游临床应用性能。跨扫描类型的大规模实验验证了任务特定采样策略在图像质量上的有效性;下游任务实验表明,所学采样策略显著提升诊断等任务表现。此外,共享重建网络的多任务框架支持在现有设备上通过可切换模块部署,新增任务时仅需添加模块,无需重新训练整个模型。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Sparse-View Computed Tomography (SVCT) offers low-dose and fast imaging but suffers from severe artifacts. Optimizing the sampling strategy is an essential approach to improving the imaging quality of SVCT. However, current methods typically optimize a universal sampling strategy for all types of scans, overlooking the fact that the optimal strategy may vary depending on the specific scanning task, whether it involves particular body scans (e.g., chest CT scans) or downstream clinical applications (e.g., disease diagnosis). The optimal strategy for one scanning task may not perform as well when applied to other tasks. To address this problem, we propose a deep learning framework that learns task-specific sampling strategies with a multi-task approach to train a unified reconstruction network while tailoring optimal sampling strategies for each individual task. Thus, a task-specific sampling strategy can be applied for each type of scans to improve the quality of SVCT imaging and further assist in performance of downstream clinical usage. Extensive experiments across different scanning types provide validation for the effectiveness of task-specific sampling strategies in enhancing imaging quality. Experiments involving downstream tasks verify the clinical value of learned sampling strategies, as evidenced by notable improvements in downstream task performance. Furthermore, the utilization of a multi-task framework with a shared reconstruction network facilitates deployment on current imaging devices with switchable task-specific modules, and allows for easily integrate new tasks without retraining the entire model.
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