计算机科学
人工智能
蒸馏
机器学习
图像去噪
降噪
模式识别(心理学)
计算机断层摄影术
图像(数学)
计算机视觉
医学
色谱法
化学
放射科
作者
Jiping Wang,Yufei Tang,Zhongyi Wu,Qiang Du,Libing Yao,Xiaodong Yang,Ming Li,Jian Zheng
标识
DOI:10.1016/j.compmedimag.2023.102237
摘要
Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) can significantly reduce the damage of X-ray to the human body, but the reduction of CT dose will produce images with severe noise and artifacts, which will affect the diagnosis of doctors. Recently, deep learning has attracted more and more attention from researchers. However, most of the denoising networks applied to deep learning-based LDCT imaging are supervised methods, which require paired data for network training. In a realistic imaging scenario, obtaining well-aligned image pairs is challenging due to the error in the table re-positioning and the patient's physiological movement during data acquisition. In contrast, the unpaired learning method can overcome the drawbacks of supervised learning, making it more feasible to collect unpaired training data in most real-world imaging applications. In this study, we develop a novel unpaired learning framework, Self-Supervised Guided Knowledge Distillation (SGKD), which enables the guidance of supervised learning using the results generated by self-supervised learning. The proposed SGKD scheme contains two stages of network training. First, we can achieve the LDCT image quality improvement by the designed self-supervised cycle network. Meanwhile, it can also produce two complementary training datasets from the unpaired LDCT and NDCT images. Second, a knowledge distillation strategy with the above two datasets is exploited to further improve the LDCT image denoising performance. To evaluate the effectiveness and feasibility of the proposed method, extensive experiments were performed on the simulated AAPM challenging and real-world clinical LDCT datasets. The qualitative and quantitative results show that the proposed SGKD achieves better performance in terms of noise suppression and detail preservation compared with some state-of-the-art network models.
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