Beyond Local Processing: Adapting CNNs for CT Reconstruction

Bassel Hamoud, Yuval Bahat, Tomer Michaeli

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Abstract

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are well suited for image restoration tasks, like super resolution, deblurring, and denoising, in which the information required for restoring each pixel is mostly concentrated in a small neighborhood around it in the degraded image. However, they are less natural for highly non-local reconstruction problems, such as computed tomography (CT). To date, this incompatibility has been partially circumvented by using CNNs with very large receptive fields. Here, we propose an alternative approach, which relies on the rearrangement of the CT projection measurements along the CNN’s 3rd (channels’) dimension. This leads to a more local inverse problem, which is suitable for CNNs. We demonstrate our approach on sparse-view and limited-view CT, and show that it significantly improves reconstruction accuracy for any given network model. This allows achieving the same level of accuracy with significantly smaller models, and thus induces shorter training and inference times.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComputer Vision – ECCV 2022 Workshops, Proceedings
EditorsLeonid Karlinsky, Tomer Michaeli, Ko Nishino
Pages513-526
Number of pages14
DOIs
StatePublished - 2023
Event17th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2022 - Tel Aviv, Israel
Duration: 23 Oct 202227 Oct 2022

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume13803 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference17th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2022
Country/TerritoryIsrael
CityTel Aviv
Period23/10/2227/10/22

Keywords

  • ConvNets
  • CT reconstruction
  • Machine learning

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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