A machine learning approach to construct a tissue-specific texture prior from previous full-dose CT for Bayesian reconstruction of current ultralow-dose CT images

Yongfeng Gao; Jiaxing Tan; Yongyi Shi; Siming Lu; Zhengrong Liang

doi:10.1117/12.2534441

28 May 2019 A machine learning approach to construct a tissue-specific texture prior from previous full-dose CT for Bayesian reconstruction of current ultralow-dose CT images

Yongfeng Gao, Jiaxing Tan, Yongyi Shi, Siming Lu, Zhengrong Liang

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Proceedings Volume 11072, 15th International Meeting on Fully Three-Dimensional Image Reconstruction in Radiology and Nuclear Medicine; 1107204 (2019) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2534441
Event: Fully Three-Dimensional Image Reconstruction in Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, 2019, Philadelphia, United States

Abstract

Bayesian theory lies down a sound framework for ultralow-dose computed tomography (ULdCT) image reconstruction with two terms for modeling the data statistical property and incorporating a priori knowledge for the tobe- reconstructed image. This study investigates the feasibility of using machine learning strategy, particularly the convolutional neural network (CNN), to construct a tissue-specific texture prior from previous full-dose CT (FdCT) and integrates the prior with the pre-log shift Poisson (SP) data property for Bayesian reconstruction of ULdCT images. The Bayesian reconstruction was implemented by an algorithm, called SP-CNN-T, and compared with our previous Markov random field (MRF) based tissue-specific texture prior algorithm, called SP-MRF-T. Both training performance and image reconstruction results showed the feasibility of constructing CNN texture prior model and the potential of improving the structure preservation of the nodule comparing to our previous regional tissue-specific MRF texture prior model. Quantitative structure similarity index (SSIM) and texture Haralick features (HF) were used to measure the performance difference between SP-CNN-T and SP-MRF-T algorithms, demonstrating the feasibility and the potential of the investigated machine learning approach.

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Yongfeng Gao, Jiaxing Tan, Yongyi Shi, Siming Lu, and Zhengrong Liang "A machine learning approach to construct a tissue-specific texture prior from previous full-dose CT for Bayesian reconstruction of current ultralow-dose CT images", Proc. SPIE 11072, 15th International Meeting on Fully Three-Dimensional Image Reconstruction in Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, 1107204 (28 May 2019); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2534441

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