Space-Variant Total Variation boosted by learning techniques in few-view tomographic imaging

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Main Authors: Morotti, Elena, Evangelista, Davide, Sebastiani, Andrea, Piccolomini, Elena Loli
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Published: 2024
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author Morotti, Elena
Evangelista, Davide
Sebastiani, Andrea
Piccolomini, Elena Loli
author_facet Morotti, Elena
Evangelista, Davide
Sebastiani, Andrea
Piccolomini, Elena Loli
contents This paper focuses on the development of a space-variant regularization model for solving an under-determined linear inverse problem. The case study is a medical image reconstruction from few-view tomographic noisy data. The primary objective of the proposed optimization model is to achieve a good balance between denoising and the preservation of fine details and edges, overcoming the performance of the popular and largely used Total Variation (TV) regularization through the application of appropriate pixel-dependent weights. The proposed strategy leverages the role of gradient approximations for the computation of the space-variant TV weights. For this reason, a convolutional neural network is designed, to approximate both the ground truth image and its gradient using an elastic loss function in its training. Additionally, the paper provides a theoretical analysis of the proposed model, showing the uniqueness of its solution, and illustrates a Chambolle-Pock algorithm tailored to address the specific problem at hand. This comprehensive framework integrates innovative regularization techniques with advanced neural network capabilities, demonstrating promising results in achieving high-quality reconstructions from low-sampled tomographic data.
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spellingShingle Space-Variant Total Variation boosted by learning techniques in few-view tomographic imaging
Morotti, Elena
Evangelista, Davide
Sebastiani, Andrea
Piccolomini, Elena Loli
Image and Video Processing
Machine Learning
Numerical Analysis
Optimization and Control
This paper focuses on the development of a space-variant regularization model for solving an under-determined linear inverse problem. The case study is a medical image reconstruction from few-view tomographic noisy data. The primary objective of the proposed optimization model is to achieve a good balance between denoising and the preservation of fine details and edges, overcoming the performance of the popular and largely used Total Variation (TV) regularization through the application of appropriate pixel-dependent weights. The proposed strategy leverages the role of gradient approximations for the computation of the space-variant TV weights. For this reason, a convolutional neural network is designed, to approximate both the ground truth image and its gradient using an elastic loss function in its training. Additionally, the paper provides a theoretical analysis of the proposed model, showing the uniqueness of its solution, and illustrates a Chambolle-Pock algorithm tailored to address the specific problem at hand. This comprehensive framework integrates innovative regularization techniques with advanced neural network capabilities, demonstrating promising results in achieving high-quality reconstructions from low-sampled tomographic data.
title Space-Variant Total Variation boosted by learning techniques in few-view tomographic imaging
topic Image and Video Processing
Machine Learning
Numerical Analysis
Optimization and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16900