Dictionary learning based image-domain material decomposition for spectral CT.

Physics in Medicine and Biology
Weiwen WuHengyong Yu

Abstract

The potential huge advantage of spectral computed tomography (CT) is that it can provide accurate material identification and quantitative tissue information by material decomposition. However, material decomposition is a typical inverse problem, where the noise can be magnified. To address this issue, we develop a dictionary learning based image-domain material decomposition (DLIMD) method for spectral CT to achieve accurate material components with better image quality. Specifically, a set of image patches are extracted from the mode-1 unfolding of normalized material images decomposed by direct inversion to train a unified dictionary using the K-SVD technique. Then, the DLIMD model is established to explore the redundant similarities of the material images, where the split-Bregman is employed to optimize the model. Finally, more constraints (i.e. volume conservation and the bounds of each pixel within material maps) are integrated into the DLIMD model. Numerical phantom, physical phantom and preclinical experiments are performed to evaluate the performance of the proposed DLIMD in material decomposition accuracy, material image edge preservation and feature recovery.

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