用自监督深度去噪器提升低剂量CT图像质量,减少辐射伤害。
Physics-Guided Dual-Domain Plug-and-Play ADMM for Low-Dose CT Reconstruction
- 结合投影域保真与图像域去噪的迭代重建框架
- 实现70%-80%剂量降低下诊断级图像质量
- 适合需要低辐射成像的临床场景
超低剂量计算机断层扫描(ULDCT)可显著降低患者辐射暴露,但导致图像出现严重结构噪声和随机噪声,影响图像质量。为此,我们提出一种新型基于模型的插件式迭代重建框架(PnP-MBIR),融合在两阶段自监督噪声到噪声(N2N)方案中训练的深度卷积去噪器。该方法在投影域数据保真与图像域去噪之间交替优化,有效抑制伪影并保留解剖结构。两阶段训练策略使模型仅需噪声数据即可完成自监督训练,随后通过高剂量数据微调,确保其在超低剂量条件下的鲁棒性。实验表明,该方法可在约70%-80%剂量降低条件下实现高质量重建,且诊断一致性接近标准全剂量扫描。基于灰度共生矩阵(GLCM)特征(对比度、同质性、熵、相关性)的定量评估显示,本方法在纹理一致性和细节保留方面优于独立深度学习及监督型PnP基线。模拟与临床数据的定性与定量结果均证明,该框架能有效减少条纹与结构伪影,同时保持细微组织对比度,是ULDCT重建的有力工具。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Ultra-low-dose CT (ULDCT) imaging can greatly reduce patient radiation exposure, but the resulting scans suffer from severe structured and random noise that degrades image quality. To address this challenge, we propose a novel Plug-and-Play model-based iterative reconstruction framework (PnP-MBIR) that integrates a deep convolutional denoiser trained in a 2-stage self-supervised Noise-to-Noise (N2N) scheme. The method alternates between enforcing sinogram-domain data fidelity and applying the learned image-domain denoiser within an optimization, enabling artifact suppression while maintaining anatomical structure. The 2-stage protocol enables fully self-supervised training from noisy data, followed by high-dose fine-tuning, ensuring the denoiser's robustness in the ultra-low-dose regime. Our method enables high-quality reconstructions at $\sim$70--80\% lower dose levels, while maintaining diagnostic fidelity comparable to standard full-dose scans. Quantitative evaluations using Gray-Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM) features -- including contrast, homogeneity, entropy, and correlation -- confirm that the proposed method yields superior texture consistency and detail preservation over standalone deep learning and supervised PnP baselines. Qualitative and quantitative results on both simulated and clinical datasets demonstrate that our framework effectively reduces streaks and structured artifacts while preserving subtle tissue contrast, making it a promising tool for ULDCT reconstruction.
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