Unsupervised-learning material decomposition for dual-energy CT with image-domain data fidelity

Junbo Peng; Huiqiao Xie; Chih-Wei Chang; Justin Roper; Richard L. J. Qiu; Tonghe Wang; Xiangyang Tang; Xiaofeng Yang

doi:10.1117/12.3006936

6 May 2024 Unsupervised-learning material decomposition for dual-energy CT with image-domain data fidelity

Junbo Peng, Huiqiao Xie, Chih-Wei Chang, Justin Roper, Richard L. J. Qiu, Tonghe Wang, Xiangyang Tang, Xiaofeng Yang

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Proceedings Volume 12925, Medical Imaging 2024: Physics of Medical Imaging; 1292513 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3006936
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2024, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Dual-energy CT (DECT) plays a vital role in quantitative imaging applications for its capability of material decomposition. Matrix inversion-based material decomposition suffers from severe degradation of signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) on the resultant images. Iterative decomposition methods perform noise suppression through regularization but the artificial image prior cannot characterize all inherent features of noiseless material-specific images. Supervised-learning material decomposition methods train a neural network to fully depict the mapping relationship between DECT images and decomposed images. However, large-size paired DECT and noiseless material-specific images are not always available in clinical practice, hindering the practice of supervised-learning methods. In this work, we propose a practical unsupervised-learning framework for DECT material decomposition with sinogram fidelity and the preliminary results show the feasibility and potential of the proposed method in quantitative applications.

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Junbo Peng, Huiqiao Xie, Chih-Wei Chang, Justin Roper, Richard L. J. Qiu, Tonghe Wang, Xiangyang Tang, and Xiaofeng Yang "Unsupervised-learning material decomposition for dual-energy CT with image-domain data fidelity", Proc. SPIE 12925, Medical Imaging 2024: Physics of Medical Imaging, 1292513 (6 May 2024); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3006936

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