ISSN 1004-4140
CN 11-3017/P

基于Transformer增强型迭代展开网络的CT图像稀疏重建

A Transformer-Enhanced Iterative Unrolling Network for Sparse-View CT Image Reconstruction

  • 摘要: 通过减少投影数量可降低计算机断层扫描(CT)的辐射剂量。然而,使用滤波反投影算法从稀疏投影数据重建CT图像时会产生严重条状伪影,影响临床诊断。针对此问题,本文提出了一种基于迭代展开的深度神经网络TransitNet,将模型驱动的数据一致性与深度学习特征提取能力相结合。该网络采用新型迭代架构,通过可学习的数据一致性操作实现更灵活的物理约束,利用Transformer的自注意力机制建立图像特征的长程依赖关系,并引入线性注意力机制将自注意力的计算复杂度从平方级降低到线性级。大量实验表明,该方法在重建质量和计算效率方面均展现出显著优势,能有效抑制条状伪影,同时保持图像结构和细节。

     

    Abstract: Radiation dose reduction in Computed Tomography (CT) can be achieved by decreasing the number of projections. However, reconstructing CT images via filtered back projection algorithm from sparse-view projections often contains severe streak artifacts, affecting clinical diagnosis. To address this issue, this paper proposes TransitNet, an iterative unrolling deep neural network that combines model-driven data consistency, a physical a prior constraint, with deep learning’s feature extraction capabilities. TransitNet employs a novel iterative architecture, implementing flexible physical constraints through learnable data consistency operations, utilizing Transformer’s self-attention mechanism to model long-range dependencies in image features, and introducing linear attention mechanisms to reduce self-attention’s computational complexity from quadratic to linear. Extensive experiments demonstrate that this method exhibits significant advantages in both reconstruction quality and computational efficiency, effectively suppressing streak artifacts while preserving structures and details of images.

     

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