Strategy of computed tomography sinogram inpainting based on sinusoid-like curve decomposition and eigenvector-guided interpolation.
Projection incompleteness in x-ray computed tomography (CT) often relates to sparse sampling or detector gaps and leads to degraded reconstructions with severe streak and ring artifacts. To suppress these artifacts, this study develops a new sinogram inpainting strategy based on sinusoid-like curve decomposition and eigenvector-guided interpolation, where each missing sinogram point is considered located within a group of sinusoid-like curves and estimated from eigenvector-guided interpolation to preserve the sinogram texture continuity. The proposed approach is evaluated on real two-dimensional fan-beam CT data, for which the projection incompleteness, due to sparse sampling and symmetric detector gaps, is simulated. A Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA)-based parallelization is applied on the operations of sinusoid fittings and interpolations to accelerate the algorithm. A comparative study is then conducted to evaluate the proposed approach with two other inpainting methods and with a compressed sensing iterative reconstruction. Qualitative and quantitative performances demonstrate that the proposed approach can lead to efficient artifact suppression and less structure blurring.
Laboratory of Image Science and Technology, Southeast University, Nanjing, China.
Yinsheng
Y
Li
Yang
Y
Chen
Yining
Y
Hu
Ahmed
A
Oukili
Limin
L
Luo
Wufan
W
Chen
Christine
C
Toumoulin
D016477:Artifacts; D003201:Computers; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D013997:Time Factors; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods*