Equivariance2Inverse: A Practical Self-Supervised CT Reconstruction Method Benchmarked on Real, Limited-Angle, and Blurred Data
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| author | Schut, Dirk Elias Graas, Adriaan van Liere, Robert van Leeuwen, Tristan |
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| contents | Deep learning has shown impressive results in reducing noise and artifacts in X-ray computed tomography (CT) reconstruction. Self-supervised CT reconstruction methods are especially appealing for real-world applications because they require no ground truth training examples. However, these methods involve a simplified X-ray physics model during training, which may make inaccurate assumptions, for example, about scintillator blurring, the scanning geometry, or the distribution of the noise. As a result, they can be less robust to real-world imaging circumstances. In this paper, we review the model assumptions of six recent self-supervised CT reconstruction methods. Based on this, we combined concepts of the Robust Equivariant Imaging and Sparse2Inverse methods in a new self-supervised CT reconstruction method called Equivariance2Inverse that is robust to scintillator blurring and limited-angle data. We benchmarked Equivariance2Inverse and the existing methods on the real-world 2DeteCT dataset and on synthetic data with and without scintillator blurring and a limited-angle scanning geometry. The results of our benchmark show that methods that assume that the noise is pixel-wise independent do not perform well on data with scintillator blurring. Moreover, they show that when the distribution of objects is rotationally invariant, this invariance can be used to reduce artifacts in limited-angle reconstructions. |
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| spellingShingle | Equivariance2Inverse: A Practical Self-Supervised CT Reconstruction Method Benchmarked on Real, Limited-Angle, and Blurred Data Schut, Dirk Elias Graas, Adriaan van Liere, Robert van Leeuwen, Tristan Image and Video Processing Deep learning has shown impressive results in reducing noise and artifacts in X-ray computed tomography (CT) reconstruction. Self-supervised CT reconstruction methods are especially appealing for real-world applications because they require no ground truth training examples. However, these methods involve a simplified X-ray physics model during training, which may make inaccurate assumptions, for example, about scintillator blurring, the scanning geometry, or the distribution of the noise. As a result, they can be less robust to real-world imaging circumstances. In this paper, we review the model assumptions of six recent self-supervised CT reconstruction methods. Based on this, we combined concepts of the Robust Equivariant Imaging and Sparse2Inverse methods in a new self-supervised CT reconstruction method called Equivariance2Inverse that is robust to scintillator blurring and limited-angle data. We benchmarked Equivariance2Inverse and the existing methods on the real-world 2DeteCT dataset and on synthetic data with and without scintillator blurring and a limited-angle scanning geometry. The results of our benchmark show that methods that assume that the noise is pixel-wise independent do not perform well on data with scintillator blurring. Moreover, they show that when the distribution of objects is rotationally invariant, this invariance can be used to reduce artifacts in limited-angle reconstructions. |
| title | Equivariance2Inverse: A Practical Self-Supervised CT Reconstruction Method Benchmarked on Real, Limited-Angle, and Blurred Data |
| topic | Image and Video Processing |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.23317 |