Beam Geometry and Input Dimensionality: Impact on Sparse-Sampling Artifact Correction for Clinical CT with U-Nets
This study aims to investigate the effect of various beam geometries and dimensions of input data on the sparse-sampling streak artifact correction task with U-Nets for clinical CT scans as a means of incorporating the volumetric context into artifact reduction tasks to improve model performance. A total of 22 subjects were retrospectively selected (01.2016-12.2018) from the Technical University of Munich's research hospital, TUM Klinikum rechts der Isar. Sparsely-sampled CT volumes were simulated with the Astra toolbox for parallel, fan, and cone beam geometries. 2048 views were taken as full-view scans. 2D and 3D U-Nets were trained and validated on 14, and tested on 8 subjects, respectively. For the dimensionality study, in addition to the 512x512 2D CT images, the CT scans were further pre-processed to generate a so-called '2.5D', and 3D data: Each CT volume was divided into 64x64x64 voxel blocks. The 3D data refers to individual 64-voxel blocks. An axial, coronal, and sagittal cut through the center of each block resulted in three 64x64 2D patches that were rearranged as a single 64x64x3 image, proposed as 2.5D data. Model performance was assessed with the mean squared error (MSE) and structural similarity index measure (SSIM). For all geometries, the 2D U-Net trained on axial 2D slices results in the best MSE and SSIM values, outperforming the 2.5D and 3D input data dimensions.
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