Solving Energy-Independent Density for CT Metal Artifact Reduction via Neural Representation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2405.07047v2
• Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2025 12:47:35 GMT
• Title: Solving Energy-Independent Density for CT Metal Artifact Reduction via Neural Representation
• Authors: Qing Wu, Xu Guo, Lixuan Chen, Yanyan Liu, Dongming He, Xudong Wang, Xueli Chen, Yifeng Zhang, S. Kevin Zhou, Jingyi Yu, Yuyao Zhang,
• Abstract summary: Reconstructing CT images from metal-corrupted measurements becomes a challenging nonlinear inverse problem. Existing state-of-the-art (SOTA) metal artifact reduction (MAR) algorithms rely on supervised learning with numerous paired CT samples. In this work, we propose Density neural representation (Diner), a novel unsupervised MAR method.
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• Abstract: X-ray CT often suffers from shadowing and streaking artifacts in the presence of metallic materials, which severely degrade imaging quality. Physically, the linear attenuation coefficients (LACs) of metals vary significantly with X-ray energy, causing a nonlinear beam hardening effect (BHE) in CT measurements. Reconstructing CT images from metal-corrupted measurements consequently becomes a challenging nonlinear inverse problem. Existing state-of-the-art (SOTA) metal artifact reduction (MAR) algorithms rely on supervised learning with numerous paired CT samples. While promising, these supervised methods often assume that the unknown LACs are energy-independent, ignoring the energy-induced BHE, which results in limited generalization. Moreover, the requirement for large datasets also limits their applications in real-world scenarios. In this work, we propose Density neural representation (Diner), a novel unsupervised MAR method. Our key innovation lies in formulating MAR as an energy-independent density reconstruction problem that strictly adheres to the photon-tissue absorption physical model. This model is inherently nonlinear and complex, making it a rarely considered approach in inverse imaging problems. By introducing the water-equivalent tissues approximation and a new polychromatic model to characterize the nonlinear CT acquisition process, we directly learn the neural representation of the density map from raw measurements without using external training data. This energy-independent density reconstruction framework fundamentally resolves the nonlinear BHE, enabling superior MAR performance across a wide range of scanning scenarios. Extensive experiments on both simulated and real-world datasets demonstrate the superiority of our unsupervised Diner over popular supervised methods in terms of MAR performance and robustness.

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