Title
Detail-Revealing Deep Low-Dose Ct Reconstruction
Abstract
Low-dose CT imaging emerges with low radiation risk due to the reduction of radiation dose, but brings negative impact on the imaging quality. This paper addresses the problem of low-dose CT reconstruction. Previous methods are unsatisfactory due to the inaccurate recovery of image details under the strong noise generated by the reduction of radiation dose, which directly affects the final diagnosis. To suppress the noise effectively while retain the structures well, we propose a detail-revealing dual-branch aggregation network to effectively reconstruct the degraded CT image. Specifically, the main reconstruction branch iteratively exploits and compensates the reconstruction errors to gradually refine the CT image, while the prior branch is to learn the structure details as prior knowledge to help recover the CT image. A sophisticated detail-revealing loss is designed to fuse the information from both branches and guide the learning to obtain better performance from pixel-wise and holistic perspectives respectively. Experimental results show that our method outperforms the state-of-art methods in both PSNR and SSIM metrics.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/ICPR48806.2021.9412327
2020 25TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PATTERN RECOGNITION (ICPR)
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
Detail-revealing, low-dose, CT image, reconstruction, noise
Conference
1051-4651
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xinchen Ye196.90
Yuyao Xu200.34
Rui Xu354.80
Shoji Kido45316.61
Noriyuki Tomiyama501.01