A new adaptive-weighted total variation sparse-view computed tomography image reconstruction with local improved gradient information

Journal of X-ray Science and Technology
Yuanjun Wang, Zeyao Qi

Abstract

Inspired by the compressed sensing (CS) theory, introducing priori information of sparse image into sparse-view reconstruction algorithm of computed tomography (CT) can improve image quality. In recent years, as a special case of CS, total variation (TV) reconstruction algorithm that uses both image sparsity and prior information of edge direction have attracted much research interest in sparse-view image reconstruction due to its ability to preserve image edges. In this paper, we propose a new adaptive-weighted total variation (NAWTV) algorithm for CT image reconstruction, which is derived by considering local gradient direction continuity and the anisotropic edge property. The anisotropic edge property is used to consolidate the image sparsity, where the associated weights are expressed as a combination of exponential and cosine function. The weights can also be adjusted adaptively according the local image intensity gradient. The NAWTV algorithm is numerically implemented with gradient descent method. The typical Shepp-Logan phantom and FORBILD head phantom are employed to perform image reconstruction simulation. To evaluate performance of NAWTV algorithm, we compared it with TV and AwTV reconstruction algorithms in experime...Continue Reading

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Aug 6, 2019·Journal of X-ray Science and Technology·Juan GaoZhanli Hu

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