用神经隐式场实现多材料CT重建,自动处理任意数量组织,提升图像质量。
$K$-NeAS: Scalable Multi-Material CT Reconstruction Using Neural SDFs

- 用共享潜空间和可微软选择器统一建模多种重叠组织
- 在腹部区域3D PSNR达33.28 dB,比基线高1.88 dB
- 无需人工调参,对稀疏视角更鲁棒,适合临床低剂量CT应用
计算机断层扫描(CT)存在电离辐射风险,推动了稀疏视角重建的需求。隐式场景表示(ISRs)通过直接从稀疏投影中恢复连续体素衰减场来应对这一挑战,近期的几何感知扩展方法同时建模表面几何与衰减,提升了保真度并实现无需手动阈值的清洁组织分割。然而,这些方法仍受限于手动设定的衰减范围和刚性的双材料约束。本文提出K-NeAS,一种统一且可扩展的自动化多材料表面重建架构。我们以共享潜空间替代独立材料网络,并引入全可微的K材料序列软选择器,以建模任意数量的重叠组织。为消除人工调参,我们采用高斯混合模型(GMM)自动确定衰减边界,并设计调度辅助浮点损失,缓解极端稀疏条件下的几何幻觉。在四个临床锥束CT(CBCT)数据集上评估显示,K-NeAS可扩展至任意材料数量,在复杂多组织区域(如腹部)达到33.28 dB的3D PSNR,优于单材料NeAS基线(31.40 dB),提升1.88 dB。此外,模型在稀疏采样条件下表现出更强鲁棒性,5视图和10视图约束下3D PSNR最高提升1.17 dB。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Computed Tomography (CT) carries significant ionizing radiation risks, driving the need for sparse-view reconstruction. Implicit scene representations (ISRs) address this by recovering continuous volumetric attenuation fields directly from sparse projections, and recent geometry-aware extensions jointly model surface geometry alongside attenuation to improve fidelity and enable clean tissue segmentation without manual thresholding. However, these methods remain limited by manually tuned attenuation bounds and rigid two-material constraints. This paper proposes $K$-NeAS, a unified and scalable architecture for automated, multi-material surface reconstruction. We replace independent material networks with a shared latent backbone and introduce a fully differentiable $K$-material sequential soft selector to model an arbitrary number of overlapping tissues. To eliminate manual tuning, we automate attenuation bounding using a Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) and implement a scheduled auxiliary floater loss to mitigate geometric hallucinations common under extreme sparsity. Evaluated across four clinical Cone-Beam CT (CBCT) datasets, $K$-NeAS successfully scales to arbitrary material counts, achieving superior 3D volumetric fidelity at $K=3$ materials on complex multi-tissue regions such as the Abdomen ($33.28\text{ dB}$ 3D PSNR vs. $31.40\text{ dB}$ single-material NeAS baseline, a $+1.88\text{ dB}$ improvement). Furthermore, our model exhibits enhanced robustness under sparse-sampling conditions, outperforming baseline 3D PSNR by up to $1.17\text{ dB}$ under 5- and 10-view constraints.
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