Limited-angle multi-energy CT using joint clustering prior and sparsity regularization

Huayu Zhang; Yuxiang Xing

doi:10.1117/12.2214312

22 March 2016 Limited-angle multi-energy CT using joint clustering prior and sparsity regularization

Huayu Zhang, Yuxiang Xing

Proceedings Volume 9783, Medical Imaging 2016: Physics of Medical Imaging; 97830D (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2214312
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2016, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

In this article, we present an easy-to-implement Multi-energy CT scanning strategy and a corresponding reconstruction method, which facilitate spectral CT imaging by improving the data efficiency the number-of-energy- channel fold without introducing visible limited-angle artifacts caused by reducing projection views. Leveraging the structure coherence at different energies, we first pre-reconstruct a prior structure information image using projection data from all energy channels. Then, we perform a k-means clustering on the prior image to generate a sparse dictionary representation for the image, which severs as a structure information constraint. We com- bine this constraint with conventional compressed sensing method and proposed a new model which we referred as Joint Clustering Prior and Sparsity Regularization (CPSR). CPSR is a convex problem and we solve it by Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM). We verify our CPSR reconstruction method with a numerical simulation experiment. A dental phantom with complicate structures of teeth and soft tissues is used. X-ray beams from three spectra of different peak energies (120kVp, 90kVp, 60kVp) irradiate the phantom to form tri-energy projections. Projection data covering only 75◦ from each energy spectrum are collected for reconstruction. Independent reconstruction for each energy will cause severe limited-angle artifacts even with the help of compressed sensing approaches. Our CPSR provides us with images free of the limited-angle artifact. All edge details are well preserved in our experimental study.

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Huayu Zhang and Yuxiang Xing "Limited-angle multi-energy CT using joint clustering prior and sparsity regularization", Proc. SPIE 9783, Medical Imaging 2016: Physics of Medical Imaging, 97830D (22 March 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2214312

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