Sparse-view spectral computed tomography (CT) reconstructs energy-resolved attenuation volumes from limited projection views, requiring simultaneous handling of angular undersampling and spectral coup...
arXiv:2505.08123v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Multi-material decomposition (MMD) enables quantitative reconstruction of tissue compositions in the human body, supporting a wide range of c...
By Qing Wu, Hongjiang Wei, Jingyi Yu, S. Kevin Zhou, Yuyao Zhang
arXiv:2609.22849v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In novel view synthesis and Computed Tomography (CT) reconstruction with sparse-view X-ray imaging, insufficient angular coverage leads to structural a...
By Lifeng Xing, Dequan Jin, Kunpeng Bu, Peigeng He, Shihui Ying
Cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) enables volumetric reconstruction from X-ray projections, but suffers from severe artifacts--especially beam hardening--when imaging materials with high attenuation such as metals. These artifacts arise from the polychromatic nature of X-rays and are not properly addressed by conventional monochromatic reconstruction algorithms.
The paper introduces $K$-NeAS, a scalable neural architecture for multi-material CT reconstruction that replaces separate material networks with a shared latent backbone and a differentiable $K$-material soft selector. It automates attenuation bounds using a Gaussian Mixture Model and adds a scheduled auxiliary floater loss to reduce geometric hallucinations in sparse-view settings. Evaluated on four clinical CBCT datasets, $K$-NeAS achieves higher 3D volumetric fidelity—up to a 1.88 dB PSNR gain over a single-material baseline—and shows improved robustness under extreme sparsity, outperforming baselines by up to 1.17 dB.
By Daksh K. Shah, Emmanouil Nikolakakis, Razvan Marinescu
arXiv:2606.30159v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Dual-energy CT (DECT) exploits attenuation differences across different X-ray spectra to provide richer material information and has been widely us...
By Qian Liu, Xiaohong Fan, Ke Chen, Chong Chen, Shuaikang Wang, Jianping Zhang
Dual-energy CT (DECT) exploits attenuation differences across different X-ray spectra to provide richer material information and has been widely used in medical imaging. While sparse-view acquisition can lower radiation exposure, it makes DECT material decomposition even more challenging, as the problem is nonlinear and ill-posed.
FaCT-GS is a new framework that accelerates Gaussian Splatting (GS) for X‑ray Computed Tomography (CT) reconstruction. By optimizing voxelization and rasterization pipelines, it achieves speeds more than four times faster than the current state‑of‑the‑art GS methods on 512×512 projections and over thirteen times faster on 2k projections. The improved voxelization also allows quick fitting of Gaussians to existing volumes, providing a compressed representation or a warm‑start prior for reconstruction.
By Pawel Tomasz Pieta, Rasmus Juul Pedersen, Sina Borgi, Jakob Sauer J{\o}rgensen, Jens Wenzel Andreasen, Vedrana Andersen Dahl
Sparse-view computed tomography is a severely ill-posed inverse problem, where recent 3D Gaussian Splatting methods offer an efficient explicit representation for tomographic reconstruction. However, we find that projection-domain optimization can be misleading in this setting: the rendered projections may continue to improve while the reconstructed volume deteriorates.
arXiv:2607. 12175v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: X-ray tomography enables nondestructive characterization of material microstructures, while advances in micro-CT imaging have accelerated volumetric data acquisition and reconstruction.
By Pradyumna Elavarthi, Arun J. Bhattacharjee, Harrison Lisabeth, Anca Ralescu, Petrus H. Zwart, Dilworth Parkinson, Elizabeth G. Clark
Sparse-view X-ray 3D reconstruction is essential for reducing radiation exposure, but recovering a density field from a handful of X-ray projections is severely ill-posed. Recently, 3D Gaussian Splatt...
arXiv:2609.10376v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Sparse-view X-ray 3D reconstruction is essential for reducing radiation exposure, but recovering a density field from a handful of X-ray projections is...
By Pranav Poudel, Florence Dell'Aniello Picard, Nairouz Shehata, Fr\'ed\'eric Lavoie, Herve Lombaert