用合成数据训练网络,有效减少CT重建中的环形伪影。
SynthRAR: Ring Artifacts Reduction in CT with Unrolled Network and Synthetic Data Training
- 将环形伪影问题建模为包含几何投影的反演问题,采用展开网络求解。
- 仅用合成数据训练,在多种扫描条件下均优于现有方法。
- 无需真实临床数据,适合缺乏标注数据的医疗影像场景。
CT探测器缺陷会导致重建图像中出现环形和条纹伪影,影响临床使用。近年来,基于监督深度学习的方法在图像域或投影域(sinogram)中提出了若干去伪影方案,但需专门收集训练数据,成本高昂。且现有方法仅关注图像或投影域之一,忽略了二者间的内在关联。本文基于非理想探测器响应的理论分析,将环形伪影去除(RAR)重构为一个反问题,采用展开网络同时建模非理想响应与线性投影过程。此外,通过自然图像生成的合成数据,挖掘了投影域与图像域间环形伪影的内在关联,使模型无需真实临床数据即可有效去伪影。在多种扫描几何与解剖区域上的大量实验表明,该方法在合成数据上训练后,性能持续超越现有最先进方法。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Defective and inconsistent responses in CT detectors can cause ring and streak artifacts in the reconstructed images, making them unusable for clinical purposes. In recent years, several ring artifact reduction solutions have been proposed in the image domain or in the sinogram domain using supervised deep learning methods. However, these methods require dedicated datasets for training, leading to a high data collection cost. Furthermore, existing approaches focus exclusively on either image-space or sinogram-space correction, neglecting the intrinsic correlations from the forward operation of the CT geometry. Based on the theoretical analysis of non-ideal CT detector responses, the RAR problem is reformulated as an inverse problem by using an unrolled network, which considers non-ideal response together with linear forward-projection with CT geometry. Additionally, the intrinsic correlations of ring artifacts between the sinogram and image domains are leveraged through synthetic data derived from natural images, enabling the trained model to correct artifacts without requiring real-world clinical data. Extensive evaluations on diverse scanning geometries and anatomical regions demonstrate that the model trained on synthetic data consistently outperforms existing state-of-the-art methods.
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