基于迭代残差网络的双能CT图像材料分解研究

双能计算机断层成像技术(DECT)由于其材料分解能力,在高级成像应用中发挥着重要作用.图像域分解直接对CT图像进行线性矩阵反演,但分解后的材料图像会受到噪声和伪影的严重影响.虽然各种正则化方法被提出来解决这个问题,但它们仍然面临着两个挑战:繁琐的参数调整和过度平滑导致的图像细节损失.为此,本文提出一种基于迭代残差网络的...

Research on Material Decomposition of Dual-energy CT Image Based on Iterative Residual Network

Dual energy computed tomography (DECT) plays an important role in the application of advanced imaging due to its material decomposition capability. Image domain decomposition can directly invert CT images through by linear matrix, but the decomposed material images will be seriously affected by noise and artifacts. Although various regularization methods have been proposed to solve this problem, they still face two challenges: tedious parameter adjustment and the loss of image details resulted from over-smoothing. Therefore, in this paper we proposes a dual energy CT image material decomposition algorithm based on iterative residual network. Direct inversion is used as the initial base image, and a stacking two-channel convolutional neural network is used to replace the regularization items in the iterative decomposition model to form a deep iterative decomposition network. This method can realize material decomposition and noise suppression simultaneously. Experimental results show that the iterative residual network proposed in this paper is superior to other comparison methods and can effectively suppress noise and artifacts while maintaining the edge details of the base image.