Affiliations: [a]
Lauterbur Research Center for Biomedical Imaging, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China
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School of Information Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China
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Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
Correspondence:
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Corresponding author: Zhanli Hu, Lauterbur Research Center for Biomedical Imaging, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China. E-mail: zl.hu@siat.ac.cn.
Abstract: X-ray radiation is harmful to human health. Thus, obtaining a better reconstructed image with few projection view constraints is a major challenge in the computed tomography (CT) field to reduce radiation dose. In this study, we proposed and tested a new algorithm that combines penalized weighted least-squares using total generalized variation (PWLS-TGV) and dictionary learning (DL), named PWLS-TGV-DL to address this challenge. We first presented and tested this new algorithm and evaluated it through both data simulation and physical experiments. We then analyzed experimental data in terms of image qualitative and quantitative measures, such as the structural similarity index (SSIM) and the root mean square error (RMSE). The experiments and data analysis indicated that applying the new algorithm to CT data recovered images more efficiently and yielded better results than the traditional CT image reconstruction approaches.
