AC-IND: Sparse CT reconstruction based on attenuation coefficient estimation and implicit neural distribution

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2409.07171v1
• Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2024 10:34:41 GMT
• Title: AC-IND: Sparse CT reconstruction based on attenuation coefficient estimation and implicit neural distribution
• Authors: Wangduo Xie, Richard Schoonhoven, Tristan van Leeuwen, Matthew B. Blaschko,
• Abstract summary: Computed tomography (CT) reconstruction plays a crucial role in industrial nondestructive testing and medical diagnosis. Sparse view CT reconstruction aims to reconstruct high-quality CT images while only using a small number of projections. We introduce AC-IND, a self-supervised method based on Attenuation Coefficient Estimation and Implicit Neural Distribution.
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• Abstract: Computed tomography (CT) reconstruction plays a crucial role in industrial nondestructive testing and medical diagnosis. Sparse view CT reconstruction aims to reconstruct high-quality CT images while only using a small number of projections, which helps to improve the detection speed of industrial assembly lines and is also meaningful for reducing radiation in medical scenarios. Sparse CT reconstruction methods based on implicit neural representations (INRs) have recently shown promising performance, but still produce artifacts because of the difficulty of obtaining useful prior information. In this work, we incorporate a powerful prior: the total number of material categories of objects. To utilize the prior, we design AC-IND, a self-supervised method based on Attenuation Coefficient Estimation and Implicit Neural Distribution. Specifically, our method first transforms the traditional INR from scalar mapping to probability distribution mapping. Then we design a compact attenuation coefficient estimator initialized with values from a rough reconstruction and fast segmentation. Finally, our algorithm finishes the CT reconstruction by jointly optimizing the estimator and the generated distribution. Through experiments, we find that our method not only outperforms the comparative methods in sparse CT reconstruction but also can automatically generate semantic segmentation maps.

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