Low-resolution Prior Equilibrium Network for CT Reconstruction

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Main Authors: Yang, Yijie, Gao, Qifeng, Duan, Yuping
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author Yang, Yijie
Gao, Qifeng
Duan, Yuping
author_facet Yang, Yijie
Gao, Qifeng
Duan, Yuping
contents The unrolling method has been investigated for learning variational models in X-ray computed tomography. However, it has been observed that directly unrolling the regularization model through gradient descent does not produce satisfactory results. In this paper, we present a novel deep learning-based CT reconstruction model, where the low-resolution image is introduced to obtain an effective regularization term for improving the network`s robustness. Our approach involves constructing the backbone network architecture by algorithm unrolling that is realized using the deep equilibrium architecture. We theoretically discuss the convergence of the proposed low-resolution prior equilibrium model and provide the conditions to guarantee convergence. Experimental results on both sparse-view and limited-angle reconstruction problems are provided, demonstrating that our end-to-end low-resolution prior equilibrium model outperforms other state-of-the-art methods in terms of noise reduction, contrast-to-noise ratio, and preservation of edge details.
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spellingShingle Low-resolution Prior Equilibrium Network for CT Reconstruction
Yang, Yijie
Gao, Qifeng
Duan, Yuping
Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
The unrolling method has been investigated for learning variational models in X-ray computed tomography. However, it has been observed that directly unrolling the regularization model through gradient descent does not produce satisfactory results. In this paper, we present a novel deep learning-based CT reconstruction model, where the low-resolution image is introduced to obtain an effective regularization term for improving the network`s robustness. Our approach involves constructing the backbone network architecture by algorithm unrolling that is realized using the deep equilibrium architecture. We theoretically discuss the convergence of the proposed low-resolution prior equilibrium model and provide the conditions to guarantee convergence. Experimental results on both sparse-view and limited-angle reconstruction problems are provided, demonstrating that our end-to-end low-resolution prior equilibrium model outperforms other state-of-the-art methods in terms of noise reduction, contrast-to-noise ratio, and preservation of edge details.
title Low-resolution Prior Equilibrium Network for CT Reconstruction
topic Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.15663