PIDNET: Polar Transformation Based Implicit Disentanglement Network for Truncation Artifacts

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Abstract

The interior problem, a persistent ill-posed challenge in CT imaging, gives rise to truncation artifacts capable of distorting CT values, thereby significantly impacting clinical diagnoses. Traditional methods have long struggled to effectively solve this issue until the advent of supervised models built on deep neural networks. However, supervised models are constrained by the need for paired data, limiting their practical application. Therefore, we propose a simple and efficient unsupervised method based on the Cycle-GAN framework. Introducing an implicit disentanglement strategy, we aim to separate truncation artifacts from content information. The separated artifact features serve as complementary constraints and the source of generating simulated paired data to enhance the training of the sub-network dedicated to removing truncation artifacts. Additionally, we incorporate polar transformation and an innovative constraint tailored specifically for truncation artifact features, further contributing to the effectiveness of our approach. Experiments conducted on multiple datasets demonstrate that our unsupervised network outperforms the traditional Cycle-GAN model significantly. When compared to state-of-the-art supervised models trained on paired datasets, our model achieves comparable visual results and closely aligns with quantitative evaluation metrics.

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