Accurate, provable and fast polychromatic tomographic reconstruction: A variational inequality approach

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Main Authors: Lou, Mengqi, Verchand, Kabir Aladin, Fridovich-Keil, Sara, Pananjady, Ashwin
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author Lou, Mengqi
Verchand, Kabir Aladin
Fridovich-Keil, Sara
Pananjady, Ashwin
author_facet Lou, Mengqi
Verchand, Kabir Aladin
Fridovich-Keil, Sara
Pananjady, Ashwin
contents We consider the problem of signal reconstruction for computed tomography (CT) under a nonlinear forward model that accounts for exponential signal attenuation, a polychromatic X-ray source, general measurement noise (e.g., Poisson shot noise), and observations acquired over multiple wavelength windows. We develop a simple iterative algorithm for single-material reconstruction, which we call EXACT (EXtragradient Algorithm for Computed Tomography), based on formulating our estimate as the fixed point of a monotone variational inequality. We prove guarantees on the statistical and computational performance of EXACT under realistic assumptions on the measurement process. We also consider a recently introduced variant of this model with Gaussian measurements and present sample and iteration complexity bounds for EXACT that improve upon those of existing algorithms. We apply our EXACT algorithm to a CT phantom image recovery task and show that it often requires fewer X-ray views, lower source intensity, and less computation time to achieve reconstruction quality similar to existing methods. Code is available at https://github.com/voilalab/exact.
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spellingShingle Accurate, provable and fast polychromatic tomographic reconstruction: A variational inequality approach
Lou, Mengqi
Verchand, Kabir Aladin
Fridovich-Keil, Sara
Pananjady, Ashwin
Image and Video Processing
Machine Learning
Optimization and Control
Medical Physics
We consider the problem of signal reconstruction for computed tomography (CT) under a nonlinear forward model that accounts for exponential signal attenuation, a polychromatic X-ray source, general measurement noise (e.g., Poisson shot noise), and observations acquired over multiple wavelength windows. We develop a simple iterative algorithm for single-material reconstruction, which we call EXACT (EXtragradient Algorithm for Computed Tomography), based on formulating our estimate as the fixed point of a monotone variational inequality. We prove guarantees on the statistical and computational performance of EXACT under realistic assumptions on the measurement process. We also consider a recently introduced variant of this model with Gaussian measurements and present sample and iteration complexity bounds for EXACT that improve upon those of existing algorithms. We apply our EXACT algorithm to a CT phantom image recovery task and show that it often requires fewer X-ray views, lower source intensity, and less computation time to achieve reconstruction quality similar to existing methods. Code is available at https://github.com/voilalab/exact.
title Accurate, provable and fast polychromatic tomographic reconstruction: A variational inequality approach
topic Image and Video Processing
Machine Learning
Optimization and Control
Medical Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.19925