Unsupervised Density Neural Representation for CT Metal Artifact Reduction

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2405.07047v1
• Date: Sat, 11 May 2024 16:30:39 GMT
• Title: Unsupervised Density Neural Representation for CT Metal Artifact Reduction
• Authors: Qing Wu, Xu Guo, Lixuan Chen, Dongming He, Hongjiang Wei, Xudong Wang, S. Kevin Zhou, Yifeng Zhang, Jingyi Yu, Yuyao Zhang,
• Abstract summary: We propose a novel unsupervised density neural representation (Diner) to tackle the challenging problem of CT metal artifacts when scanned objects contain metals. Existing metal artifact reduction (MAR) techniques mostly formulate the MAR as an image inpainting task, which ignores the energy-induced BHE. We decompose the energy-dependent LACs into energy-independent densities and energy-dependent mass attenuation coefficients (MACs) by fully considering the physical model of X-ray absorption.
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• Abstract: Emerging unsupervised reconstruction techniques based on implicit neural representation (INR), such as NeRP, CoIL, and SCOPE, have shown unique capabilities in CT linear inverse imaging. In this work, we propose a novel unsupervised density neural representation (Diner) to tackle the challenging problem of CT metal artifacts when scanned objects contain metals. The drastic variation of linear attenuation coefficients (LACs) of metals over X-ray spectra leads to a nonlinear beam hardening effect (BHE) in CT measurements. Recovering CT images from metal-affected measurements therefore poses a complicated nonlinear inverse problem. Existing metal artifact reduction (MAR) techniques mostly formulate the MAR as an image inpainting task, which ignores the energy-induced BHE and produces suboptimal performance. Instead, our Diner introduces an energy-dependent polychromatic CT forward model to the INR framework, addressing the nonlinear nature of the MAR problem. Specifically, we decompose the energy-dependent LACs into energy-independent densities and energy-dependent mass attenuation coefficients (MACs) by fully considering the physical model of X-ray absorption. Using the densities as pivot variables and the MACs as known prior knowledge, the LACs can be accurately reconstructed from the raw measurements. Technically, we represent the unknown density map as an implicit function of coordinates. Combined with a novel differentiable forward model simulating the physical acquisition from the densities to the measurements, our Diner optimizes a multi-layer perception network to approximate the implicit function by minimizing predicted errors between the estimated and real measurements. Experimental results on simulated and real datasets confirm the superiority of our unsupervised Diner against popular supervised techniques in MAR performance and robustness.

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