NAF: Neural Attenuation Fields for Sparse-View CBCT Reconstruction
This addresses faster and more accurate medical imaging reconstruction for healthcare, but it is incremental as it builds on existing neural field techniques.
The paper tackles sparse-view CBCT reconstruction by proposing a self-supervised method using a neural network to represent attenuation coefficients, achieving state-of-the-art accuracy with short computation time on human organ and phantom datasets.
This paper proposes a novel and fast self-supervised solution for sparse-view CBCT reconstruction (Cone Beam Computed Tomography) that requires no external training data. Specifically, the desired attenuation coefficients are represented as a continuous function of 3D spatial coordinates, parameterized by a fully-connected deep neural network. We synthesize projections discretely and train the network by minimizing the error between real and synthesized projections. A learning-based encoder entailing hash coding is adopted to help the network capture high-frequency details. This encoder outperforms the commonly used frequency-domain encoder in terms of having higher performance and efficiency, because it exploits the smoothness and sparsity of human organs. Experiments have been conducted on both human organ and phantom datasets. The proposed method achieves state-of-the-art accuracy and spends reasonably short computation time.