PLOT-CT: Pre-log Voronoi Decomposition Assisted Generation for Low-dose CT Reconstruction

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Auteurs principaux: Huang, Bin, Yu, Xun, Zhang, Yikun, Zhang, Yi, Chen, Yang, Liu, Qiegen
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author Huang, Bin
Yu, Xun
Zhang, Yikun
Zhang, Yi
Chen, Yang
Liu, Qiegen
author_facet Huang, Bin
Yu, Xun
Zhang, Yikun
Zhang, Yi
Chen, Yang
Liu, Qiegen
contents Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) reconstruction is fundamentally challenged by severe noise and compromised data fidelity under reduced radiation exposure. Most existing methods operate either in the image or post-log projection domain, which fails to fully exploit the rich structural information in pre-log measurements while being highly susceptible to noise. The requisite logarithmic transformation critically amplifies noise within these data, imposing exceptional demands on reconstruction precision. To overcome these challenges, we propose PLOT-CT, a novel framework for Pre-Log vOronoi decomposiTion-assisted CT generation. Our method begins by applying Voronoi decomposition to pre-log sinograms, disentangling the data into distinct underlying components, which are embedded in separate latent spaces. This explicit decomposition significantly enhances the model's capacity to learn discriminative features, directly improving reconstruction accuracy by mitigating noise and preserving information inherent in the pre-log domain. Extensive experiments demonstrate that PLOT-CT achieves state-of-the-art performance, attaining a 2.36dB PSNR improvement over traditional methods at the 1e4 incident photon level in the pre-log domain.
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spellingShingle PLOT-CT: Pre-log Voronoi Decomposition Assisted Generation for Low-dose CT Reconstruction
Huang, Bin
Yu, Xun
Zhang, Yikun
Zhang, Yi
Chen, Yang
Liu, Qiegen
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) reconstruction is fundamentally challenged by severe noise and compromised data fidelity under reduced radiation exposure. Most existing methods operate either in the image or post-log projection domain, which fails to fully exploit the rich structural information in pre-log measurements while being highly susceptible to noise. The requisite logarithmic transformation critically amplifies noise within these data, imposing exceptional demands on reconstruction precision. To overcome these challenges, we propose PLOT-CT, a novel framework for Pre-Log vOronoi decomposiTion-assisted CT generation. Our method begins by applying Voronoi decomposition to pre-log sinograms, disentangling the data into distinct underlying components, which are embedded in separate latent spaces. This explicit decomposition significantly enhances the model's capacity to learn discriminative features, directly improving reconstruction accuracy by mitigating noise and preserving information inherent in the pre-log domain. Extensive experiments demonstrate that PLOT-CT achieves state-of-the-art performance, attaining a 2.36dB PSNR improvement over traditional methods at the 1e4 incident photon level in the pre-log domain.
title PLOT-CT: Pre-log Voronoi Decomposition Assisted Generation for Low-dose CT Reconstruction
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.11625