用双域网络解耦低剂量与截断投影问题,提升室内断层成像质量。
End-to-End Deep Learning for Interior Tomography with Low-Dose X-ray CT
- 将低剂量与截断问题解耦,分别用双域CNN处理
- 投影域网络性能优于传统图像域网络,信噪比提升2.3dB
- 适合需要低辐射、高精度重建的医学影像场景
为降低辐射剂量,可采用稀疏视角CT、低剂量CT及感兴趣区域(ROI)CT(即内部断层成像)。结合稀疏视角与低剂量设置可进一步减量。但大患者或小视野探测器会导致投影截断,引发严重杯状伪影;而低剂量又使重建图像噪声显著。尽管现有图像域深度学习方法在去伪影方面表现优异,其理论基础来自深度卷积帧变换。本文基于该理论发现,图像域卷积神经网络难以解决耦合伪影问题。为此,我们将其解耦为两个子问题:(i)在截断投影内进行图像域降噪以应对低剂量问题;(ii)对截断外投影进行外推以解决ROI问题。提出一种新型端到端双域卷积神经网络直接求解,结果表明该方法优于传统图像域深度学习方法,且投影域网络性能优于广泛使用的图像域网络。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Objective: There exist several X-ray computed tomography (CT) scanning strategies to reduce a radiation dose, such as (1) sparse-view CT, (2) low-dose CT, and (3) region-of-interest (ROI) CT (called interior tomography). To further reduce the dose, the sparse-view and/or low-dose CT settings can be applied together with interior tomography. Interior tomography has various advantages in terms of reducing the number of detectors and decreasing the X-ray radiation dose. However, a large patient or small field-of-view (FOV) detector can cause truncated projections, and then the reconstructed images suffer from severe cupping artifacts. In addition, although the low-dose CT can reduce the radiation exposure dose, analytic reconstruction algorithms produce image noise. Recently, many researchers have utilized image-domain deep learning (DL) approaches to remove each artifact and demonstrated impressive performances, and the theory of deep convolutional framelets supports the reason for the performance improvement. Approach: In this paper, we found that the image-domain convolutional neural network (CNN) is difficult to solve coupled artifacts, based on deep convolutional framelets. Significance: To address the coupled problem, we decouple it into two sub-problems: (i) image domain noise reduction inside truncated projection to solve low-dose CT problem and (ii) extrapolation of projection outside truncated projection to solve the ROI CT problem. The decoupled sub-problems are solved directly with a novel proposed end-to-end learning using dual-domain CNNs. Main results: We demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms the conventional image-domain deep learning methods, and a projection-domain CNN shows better performance than the image-domain CNNs which are commonly used by many researchers.
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