arXiv Computer Vision

SpectralCTGaussians: Projection-Domain Reconstruction and Basis Material Decomposition for Spectral CT using 3D Gaussian Splatting

SpectralCTGaussians introduces a novel spectral CT reconstruction and basis material decomposition technique that employs 3D Gaussian splatting with per‑Gaussian material fractions and energy‑dependent basis functions. By jointly optimizing these parameters across all energy channels via a differentiable polychromatic forward model, the method achieves superior novel view synthesis and higher PSNR for spectral CT volume reconstruction compared to traditional and learning‑based baselines. It also provides one‑step material decomposition with direct RGB segmentation and recovers the photoelectric basis more accurately than existing pipelines.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 13

Splat-based Metal Artifact Reduction in Cone-Beam CT via Polychromatic Modeling

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.

arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 4

$K$-NeAS: Scalable Multi-Material CT Reconstruction Using Neural SDFs

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
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 29

A Dual-domain Refinement Network with FBP-based Jacobian Learning for Sparse-view Dual-Energy CT Material Decomposition

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.

arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 25

FaCT-GS: Fast and Scalable CT Reconstruction with Gaussian Splatting

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
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 21

Projection-Volume Fidelity Divergence: Diagnosing and Controlling Optimization Drift in Sparse-View 3D Gaussian Tomography

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 AI
Jul 15

From Reconstruction to Interpretation: Zero-Setup Multi-Phase Segmentation of X-ray Tomography Data

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