Reducing Staircasing Artifacts in SPECT Reconstruction by an Infimal Convolution Regularization

Reducing Staircasing Artifacts in SPECT Reconstruction by an Infimal Convolution Regularization

Year:    2016

Author:    Zhifeng Wu, Si Li, Xueying Zeng, Yuesheng Xu, A. Krol

Journal of Computational Mathematics, Vol. 34 (2016), Iss. 6 : pp. 626–647

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the ability of the infimal convolution regularization in curing the staircasing artifacts of the TV model in the SPECT reconstruction. We formulate the problem of SPECT reconstruction with the infimal convolution regularization as a convex three-block optimization problem and characterize its solution by a system of fixed-point equations in terms of the proximity operator of the functions involved in its objective function. We then develop a novel fixed-point proximity algorithm based on the fixed-point equations. Moreover, we introduce a preconditioning matrix motivated by the classical MLEM (maximum-likelihood expectation maximization) algorithm. We prove convergence of the proposed algorithm. The numerical results are included to show that the infimal convolution regularization is capable of effectively reducing the staircasing artifacts, while maintaining comparable image quality in terms of the signal-to-noise ratio and coefficient recovery contrast.

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Journal Article Details

Publisher Name:    Global Science Press

Language:    English

DOI:    https://doi.org/10.4208/jcm.1607-m2016-0537

Journal of Computational Mathematics, Vol. 34 (2016), Iss. 6 : pp. 626–647

Published online:    2016-01

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Copyright:    COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press

Pages:    22

Keywords:    SPECT Infimal Convolution Regularization Staircasing Artifacts Fixed-point Proximity Algorithm.

Author Details

Zhifeng Wu

Si Li

Xueying Zeng

Yuesheng Xu

A. Krol

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