Abstract：
:Lung 4D computed tomography (4D-CT), which is a time-resolved CT data acquisition, performs an important role in explicitly including respiratory motion in treatment planning and delivery. However, the radiation dose is usually reduced at the expense of inter-slice spatial resolution to minimize radiation-related health risk. Therefore, resolution enhancement along the superior-inferior direction is necessary. In this paper, a super-resolution (SR) reconstruction method based on a patch low-rank matrix reconstruction is proposed to improve the resolution of lung 4D-CT images. Specifically, a low-rank matrix related to every patch is constructed by using a patch searching strategy. Thereafter, the singular value shrinkage is employed to recover the high-resolution patch under the constraints of the image degradation model. The output high-resolution patches are finally assembled to output the entire image. This method is extensively evaluated using two public data sets. Quantitative analysis shows that the proposed algorithm decreases the root mean square error by 9.7%-33.4% and the edge width by 11.4%-24.3%, relative to linear interpolation, back projection (BP) and Zhang et al's algorithm. A new algorithm has been developed to improve the resolution of 4D-CT. In all experiments, the proposed method outperforms various interpolation methods, as well as BP and Zhang et al's method, thus indicating the effectivity and competitiveness of the proposed algorithm.
journal_name
Phys Med Bioljournal_title
Physics in medicine and biologyauthors
Fang S,Wang H,Liu Y,Zhang M,Yang W,Feng Q,Chen W,Zhang Ydoi
10.1088/1361-6560/aa8a48subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2017-10-03 00:00:00pages
7925-7937issue
20eissn
0031-9155issn
1361-6560journal_volume
62pub_type
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