An Improved Iterative Neural Network for High-Quality Image-Domain Material Decomposition in Dual-Energy CT

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2012.01986v1
• Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2020 16:27:38 GMT
• Title: An Improved Iterative Neural Network for High-Quality Image-Domain Material Decomposition in Dual-Energy CT
• Authors: Zhipeng Li, Yong Long, Il Yong Chun
• Abstract summary: Image-domain methods directly decompose material images from high- and low-energy attenuation images. Various data-driven methods have been proposed to obtain high-quality material images. Iterative neural network (NN) methods combine regression NNs and model-based image reconstruction.
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• Abstract: Dual-energy computed tomography (DECT) has been widely used in many applications that need material decomposition. Image-domain methods directly decompose material images from high- and low-energy attenuation images, and thus, are susceptible to noise and artifacts on attenuation images. To obtain high-quality material images, various data-driven methods have been proposed. Iterative neural network (INN) methods combine regression NNs and model-based image reconstruction algorithm. INNs reduced the generalization error of (noniterative) deep regression NNs, and achieved high-quality reconstruction in diverse medical imaging applications. BCD-Net is a recent INN architecture that incorporates imaging refining NNs into the block coordinate descent (BCD) model-based image reconstruction algorithm. We propose a new INN architecture, distinct cross-material BCD-Net, for DECT material decomposition. The proposed INN architecture uses distinct cross-material convolutional neural network (CNN) in image refining modules, and uses image decomposition physics in image reconstruction modules. The distinct cross-material CNN refiners incorporate distinct encoding-decoding filters and cross-material model that captures correlations between different materials. We interpret the distinct cross-material CNN refiner with patch perspective. Numerical experiments with extended cardiactorso (XCAT) phantom and clinical data show that proposed distinct cross-material BCD-Net significantly improves the image quality over several image-domain material decomposition methods, including a conventional model-based image decomposition (MBID) method using an edge-preserving regularizer, a state-of-the-art MBID method using pre-learned material-wise sparsifying transforms, and a noniterative deep CNN denoiser.

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