Field of View Extension in Computed Tomography Using Deep Learning Prior

11/04/2019
by   Yixing Huang, et al.
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In computed tomography (CT), data truncation is a common problem. Images reconstructed by the standard filtered back-projection algorithm from truncated data suffer from cupping artifacts inside the field-of-view (FOV), while anatomical structures are severely distorted or missing outside the FOV. Deep learning, particularly the U-Net, has been applied to extend the FOV as a post-processing method. Since image-to-image prediction neglects the data fidelity to measured projection data, incorrect structures, even inside the FOV, might be reconstructed by such an approach. Therefore, generating reconstructed images directly from a post-processing neural network is inadequate. In this work, we propose a data consistent reconstruction method, which utilizes deep learning reconstruction as prior for extrapolating truncated projections and a conventional iterative reconstruction to constrain the reconstruction consistent to measured raw data. Its efficacy is demonstrated in our study, achieving small average root-mean-square error of 27 HU inside the FOV and a high structure similarity index of 0.993 for the whole body area on a test patient's CT data.

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