Few-View CT reconstruction method based on deep learning

To reduce patient's dose, few-view CT reconstruction promises to be a good attempt. The key to better reconstruction is the sparse view artifacts. In recent years, DL(deep learing) has attracted a lot of attention because its outstanding performance in image processing. We propose a deep learning method for few-view CT reconstuction. Our method directly learns an end-to-end mapping between the full-view/few-view reconstruction. The mapping is represented as a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) that takes the few-view reconstruction image as the input and outputs the full-view one. We further show that traditional Dictionary Learning based reconstruction methods can also be viewed as a deep convolutional network. But unlike traditional methods that handle each component separately, our method jointly optimizes all layers. Our deep CNN has a lightweight structure, yet demonstrates state-of-the-art reconstruction quality, and achieves fast speed for practical on-line usage. We explore different network structures and parameter settings to achieve trade-offs between performance and speed.