A dictionary learning approach with overlap for the low dose computed tomography reconstruction and its vectorial application to differential phase tomography.
X-ray based Phase-Contrast Imaging (PCI) techniques have been demonstrated to enhance the visualization of soft tissues in comparison to conventional imaging methods. Nevertheless the delivered dose as reported in the literature of biomedical PCI applications often equals or exceeds the limits presc...
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| description | X-ray based Phase-Contrast Imaging (PCI) techniques have been demonstrated to enhance the visualization of soft tissues in comparison to conventional imaging methods. Nevertheless the delivered dose as reported in the literature of biomedical PCI applications often equals or exceeds the limits prescribed in clinical diagnostics. The optimization of new computed tomography strategies which include the development and implementation of advanced image reconstruction procedures is thus a key aspect. In this scenario, we implemented a dictionary learning method with a new form of convex functional. This functional contains in addition to the usual sparsity inducing and fidelity terms, a new term which forces similarity between overlapping patches in the superimposed regions. The functional depends on two free regularization parameters: a coefficient multiplying the sparsity-inducing L1 norm of the patch basis functions coefficients, and a coefficient multiplying the L2 norm of the differences between patches in the overlapping regions. The solution is found by applying the iterative proximal gradient descent method with FISTA acceleration. The gradient is computed by calculating projection of the solution and its error backprojection at each iterative step. We study the quality of the solution, as a function of the regularization parameters and noise, on synthetic data for which the solution is a-priori known. We apply the method on experimental data in the case of Differential Phase Tomography. For this case we use an original approach which consists in using vectorial patches, each patch having two components: one per each gradient component. The resulting algorithm, implemented in the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility tomography reconstruction code PyHST, has proven to be efficient and well-adapted to strongly reduce the required dose and the number of projections in medical tomography. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-ba63acce24bc46c884f31b7c1da72bbf2025-08-20T02:15:12ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032014-01-01912e11432510.1371/journal.pone.0114325A dictionary learning approach with overlap for the low dose computed tomography reconstruction and its vectorial application to differential phase tomography.Alessandro MironeEmmanuel BrunPaola CoanX-ray based Phase-Contrast Imaging (PCI) techniques have been demonstrated to enhance the visualization of soft tissues in comparison to conventional imaging methods. Nevertheless the delivered dose as reported in the literature of biomedical PCI applications often equals or exceeds the limits prescribed in clinical diagnostics. The optimization of new computed tomography strategies which include the development and implementation of advanced image reconstruction procedures is thus a key aspect. In this scenario, we implemented a dictionary learning method with a new form of convex functional. This functional contains in addition to the usual sparsity inducing and fidelity terms, a new term which forces similarity between overlapping patches in the superimposed regions. The functional depends on two free regularization parameters: a coefficient multiplying the sparsity-inducing L1 norm of the patch basis functions coefficients, and a coefficient multiplying the L2 norm of the differences between patches in the overlapping regions. The solution is found by applying the iterative proximal gradient descent method with FISTA acceleration. The gradient is computed by calculating projection of the solution and its error backprojection at each iterative step. We study the quality of the solution, as a function of the regularization parameters and noise, on synthetic data for which the solution is a-priori known. We apply the method on experimental data in the case of Differential Phase Tomography. For this case we use an original approach which consists in using vectorial patches, each patch having two components: one per each gradient component. The resulting algorithm, implemented in the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility tomography reconstruction code PyHST, has proven to be efficient and well-adapted to strongly reduce the required dose and the number of projections in medical tomography.https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0114325&type=printable |
| spellingShingle | Alessandro Mirone Emmanuel Brun Paola Coan A dictionary learning approach with overlap for the low dose computed tomography reconstruction and its vectorial application to differential phase tomography. PLoS ONE |
| title | A dictionary learning approach with overlap for the low dose computed tomography reconstruction and its vectorial application to differential phase tomography. |
| title_full | A dictionary learning approach with overlap for the low dose computed tomography reconstruction and its vectorial application to differential phase tomography. |
| title_fullStr | A dictionary learning approach with overlap for the low dose computed tomography reconstruction and its vectorial application to differential phase tomography. |
| title_full_unstemmed | A dictionary learning approach with overlap for the low dose computed tomography reconstruction and its vectorial application to differential phase tomography. |
| title_short | A dictionary learning approach with overlap for the low dose computed tomography reconstruction and its vectorial application to differential phase tomography. |
| title_sort | dictionary learning approach with overlap for the low dose computed tomography reconstruction and its vectorial application to differential phase tomography |
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