Unsupervised data fidelity enhancement network for spectral CT reconstruction

Danyang Li; Sui Li; Manman Zhu; Qi Gao; Zhaoying Bian; Haiyun Huang; Shanli Zhang; Jing Huang; Dong Zeng; Jianhua Ma

doi:10.1117/12.2548893

16 March 2020 Unsupervised data fidelity enhancement network for spectral CT reconstruction

Danyang Li, Sui Li, Manman Zhu, Qi Gao, Zhaoying Bian, Haiyun Huang, Shanli Zhang, Jing Huang, Dong Zeng, Jianhua Ma

Proceedings Volume 11312, Medical Imaging 2020: Physics of Medical Imaging; 113124D (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2548893
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2020, Houston, Texas, United States

Abstract

Deep learning (DL) networks show a great potential in computed tomography (CT) imaging field. Most of them are supervised DL network greatly based on their capability and the amount of CT training data (i.e., low-dose CT measurements/high-quality ones). However, collection of large-scale CT datasets are time-consuming and expensive. In addition, the training and testing CT datasets used for supervised DL network are highly desired similarities in CT scan protocol (i.e., similar anatomical structure, and same kVp setting). These two issues are particularly critical in spectral CT imaging. In this work, to address the issues, we presents an unsupervised data fidelity enhancement network (USENet) to produce high-quality spectral CT images. Specifically, the presented USENet consists of two parts, i.e., supervised network and unsupervised network. In the supervised network, the spectral CT image pairs at 140 kVp (low-dose CT images/high-dose ones) are used for network training. It should be noted that there is a great difference of CT value between spectral CT images at 140 kVp and 80 kVp, and the supervised network trained with CT images at 140 kVp cannot be directly used for CT image reconstruction at 80 kVp. Then unsupervised network enrolls physical model and the spectral CT measurements at 80 kVp for fine-tuning the supervised network, which is the major contribution of the presented USENet method. Finally, accurate spectral CT reconstructions are achieved for the sparse-view and low-dose cases, which fully demonstrate the effectiveness of the presented USENet method.

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Danyang Li, Sui Li, Manman Zhu, Qi Gao, Zhaoying Bian, Haiyun Huang, Shanli Zhang, Jing Huang, Dong Zeng, and Jianhua Ma "Unsupervised data fidelity enhancement network for spectral CT reconstruction", Proc. SPIE 11312, Medical Imaging 2020: Physics of Medical Imaging, 113124D (16 March 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2548893

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