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Data-Driven Gradient Regularization for Quasi-Newton Optimization in Iterative Grating Interferometry CT Reconstruction
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Grating interferometry CT (GI-CT) is a promising technology that could play an important role in future breast cancer imaging. Thanks to its sensitivity to refraction and small-angle scattering, GI-CT could augment the diagnostic content of conventional absorption-based CT. However, reconstructing GI-CT tomographies is a complex task because of ill problem conditioning and high noise amplitudes. It has previously been shown that combining data-driven regularization with iterative reconstruction is promising for tackling challenging inverse problems in medical imaging. In this work, we present an algorithm that allows seamless combination of data-driven regularization with quasi-Newton solvers, which can better deal with ill-conditioned problems compared to gradient descent-based optimization algorithms. Contrary to most available algorithms, our method applies regularization in the gradient domain rather than in the image domain. This comes with a crucial advantage when applied in conjunction with quasi-Newton solvers: the Hessian is approximated solely based on denoised data. We apply the proposed method, which we call GradReg, to both conventional breast CT and GI-CT and show that both significantly benefit from our approach in terms of dose efficiency. Moreover, our results suggest that thanks to its sharper gradients that carry more high spatial-frequency content, GI-CT can benefit more from GradReg compared to conventional breast CT. Crucially, GradReg can be applied to any image reconstruction task which relies on gradient-based updates.
Keywords:
Image reconstruction
Computed tomography
Gratings
Noise reduction
Optimization
Interferometry
Scattering
Grating interferometry
iterative reconstruction
machine learning
regularization
tomography
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