Journal
MEASUREMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Volume 32, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6501/aba282
Keywords
CT image reconstruction; sparse-view noisy projection data; nonlocal sparse regularization; combination of TV and nonlocal shearlet regularization; Moreau-envelope-enhanced L-1 norm; numerical stability
Funding
- National Key Scientific Instrument and Equipment Development Projects of China [2014YQ240445]
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The proposed nonlocal 3D Shearlet sparse regularization method effectively restores structural details of noisy sparse-view CT images, suppresses noise, and protects fine structures, improving the quality of the reconstructed image.
Iterative computed tomography (CT) image reconstruction with sparse regularization can substantially reduce the amount of projection data. However, when the sparse-view sampled projection data are noisy, it is challenging to achieve satisfactory reconstruction with local prior-based sparsity regularization such as total variation. This is because employing local prior information, it is difficult to distinguish structural details from noise. In this work, to address the problem, a nonlocal 3D shearlet sparse regularization based on image patch matching and a patch-based shearlet transform is proposed for sparse-view CT image reconstruction, which can effectively utilize nonlocal self-similar prior information to restore the structural details of CT images with sparse-view noisy projection data. As the shearlet transform belongs to a multi-scale directional sensitive transform, it can better preserve the anisotropic features of the image compared with a traditional wavelet transform. Moreover, we incorporate the proposed nonlocal shearlet regularization as an L-1 regularization term into the TV-L-1 model to further help preserve the edge of the reconstructed image. In addition, the Moreau-envelope-enhanced L-1 norm is also employed to enhance the performance of the reconstruction. The simulation and practical data study show that the proposed method can effectively suppress noise and protect the fine structures, leading to an overall improvement in the quality of the reconstructed image.
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