Learning from our neighbours: a novel approach on sinogram completion using bin-sharing and deep learning to reconstruct high quality 4DCBCT

Joel Beaudry; Pedro L. Esquinas; Chun-Chien Shieh

doi:10.1117/12.2513168

1 March 2019 Learning from our neighbours: a novel approach on sinogram completion using bin-sharing and deep learning to reconstruct high quality 4DCBCT

Joel Beaudry, Pedro L. Esquinas, Chun-Chien Shieh

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Proceedings Volume 10948, Medical Imaging 2019: Physics of Medical Imaging; 1094847 (2019) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2513168
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2019, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Inspired by the success of deep learning applications on restoration of low-dose and sparse CT images, we propose a novel method to reconstruct high-quality 4D cone-beam CT (4DCBCT) images from sparse datasets. Our approach combines the idea of bin-sharing with a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) model. More specifically, for each respiratory bin, an initial estimate of the patient sinogram is obtained by taking projections from adjacent bins and performing linear interpolation. Subsequently, the estimated sinogram is propagated through a CNN that predicts a full, high-quality sinogram. Lastly, the predicted sinogram is reconstructed with an iterative CBCT algorithms such as the Conjugate Gradient (CG) method. The CNN model, which we referred to as the Sino-Net, was trained under different loss functions. We assessed the performance of the proposed method in terms of image quality metrics (mean square error, mean absolute error, peak signal-to-noise ratio and structural similarity) and tumor motion accuracy (tumor centroid deviation with respect to the ground truth). Lastly, we compared our approach against other state-of-the-art methods that compensate motion and reconstruct 4DCBCTs. Overall, the presented prototype model was able to substantially improve the quality of 4DCBCT images, removing most of the streak artifacts and decreasing the noise with respect to the standard CG reconstructions.

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Joel Beaudry, Pedro L. Esquinas, and Chun-Chien Shieh "Learning from our neighbours: a novel approach on sinogram completion using bin-sharing and deep learning to reconstruct high quality 4DCBCT", Proc. SPIE 10948, Medical Imaging 2019: Physics of Medical Imaging, 1094847 (1 March 2019); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2513168

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