Graph-based sinogram denoising for tomographic reconstructions.
2016 38th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC)(2016)
摘要
Limited data and low-dose constraints are common problems in a variety of tomographic reconstruction paradigms, leading to noisy and incomplete data. Over the past few years, sinogram denoising has become an essential preprocessing step for low-dose Computed Tomographic (CT) reconstructions. We propose a novel sinogram denoising algorithm inspired by signal processing on graphs. Graph-based methods often perform better than standard filtering operations since they can exploit the signal structure. This makes the sinogram an ideal candidate for graph based denoising since it generally has a piecewise smooth structure. We test our method with a variety of phantoms using different reconstruction methods. Our numerical study shows that the proposed algorithm improves the performance of analytical filtered back-projection (FBP) and iterative methods such as ART (Kaczmarz), and SIRT (Cimmino). We observed that graph denoised sinograms always minimize the error measure and improve the accuracy of the solution, compared to regular reconstructions.
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Sinogram denoising,Graph total variation,Low-dose,Computed tomography,Tomography
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