Tensor decomposition and nonlocal means based spectral CT reconstruction

Yanbo Zhang; Hengyong Yu

doi:10.1117/12.2237169

3 October 2016 Tensor decomposition and nonlocal means based spectral CT reconstruction

Yanbo Zhang, Hengyong Yu

Proceedings Volume 9967, Developments in X-Ray Tomography X; 99670Z (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2237169
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2016, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

As one of the state-of-the-art detectors, photon counting detector is used in spectral CT to classify the received photons into several energy channels and generate multichannel projection simultaneously. However, the projection always contains severe noise due to the low counts in each energy channel. How to reconstruct high-quality images from photon counting detector based spectral CT is a challenging problem. It is widely accepted that there exists self-similarity over the spatial domain in a CT image. Moreover, because a multichannel CT image is obtained from the same object at different energy, images among channels are highly correlated. Motivated by these two characteristics of the spectral CT, we employ tensor decomposition and nonlocal means methods for spectral CT iterative reconstruction. Our method includes three basic steps. First, each channel image is updated by using the OS-SART. Second, small 3D volumetric patches (tensor) are extracted from the multichannel image, and higher-order singular value decomposition (HOSVD) is performed on each tensor, which can help to enhance the spatial sparsity and spectral correlation. Third, in order to employ the self-similarity in CT images, similar patches are grouped to reduce noise using the nonlocal means method. These three steps are repeated alternatively till the stopping criteria are met. The effectiveness of the developed algorithm is validated on both numerically simulated and realistic preclinical datasets. Our results show that the proposed method achieves promising performance in terms of noise reduction and fine structures preservation.

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Yanbo Zhang and Hengyong Yu "Tensor decomposition and nonlocal means based spectral CT reconstruction", Proc. SPIE 9967, Developments in X-Ray Tomography X, 99670Z (3 October 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2237169

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