arXiv:2610.09579v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Trajectory optimisation for cone-beam computed tomography (CT) determines which information sparse-view scans acquire. Fixed candidate pools prevent of...
By Linda-Sophie Schneider, Simon Wittl, Gabriel Herl, Andreas Maier
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.
The paper introduces a method for extremely sparse‑view computed tomography (xSV‑CT) that learns a pose‑aware diffusion prior from a single 2D projection per training sample. During inference, the diffusion process is guided by measured‑view fidelity, shared‑volume reprojection, and projection‑physics consistency to reconstruct 3D volumes from only 1, 4, or 8 views. Experiments on two public CT datasets show that this approach outperforms or matches baselines that rely on dense‑volume supervision, achieving superior novel‑view synthesis and competitive reconstruction quality.
By Linrui Dai, Jinxiu Liang, Chu Zhou, Mae Yamaguchi, Ryuya Takahashi, Imari Sato
Sparse-view cone-beam computed tomography is widely used for fast, low-dose volumetric imaging and lesion localization in dentistry and image-guided interventions, but it introduces severe artifacts....
SparseTokenGS is a Gaussian-based, feed-forward method for sparse-view cone-beam CT reconstruction that uses a reusable token pool to maintain scan-wide context during decoding. Anchor Token Fusion and Point-Token Attention query this shared pool at anchors and query coordinates, preserving local Gaussian priors while enabling reconstruction in a single forward pass without per-scan optimization. Experiments on chest, dental, volcanic rock, and chicken datasets show that SparseTokenGS achieves superior reconstruction quality, achieving 29.51 dB PSNR and 0.842 SSIM from only six dental projections and maintaining separable tooth-and-pulp structures for root‑canal localization.
By Zihan Deng, Zhenzhen Gong, Yujie Liu, Jiaxin Gong, Dingkun Liu, Kexian Xie, Yixing Huang, Peng Jin, Tianye Niu, Zhisheng Wang, Fenglin Liu, Hongming Shan, Lequan Yu
arXiv:2609.37605v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Supervised deep learning has advanced sparse-view tomographic reconstruction. However, conventional models, which typically map filtered back-project...
By AmirEhsan Khorashadizadeh, Benjam\'in B\'ejar
arXiv:2610.08866v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Sparse-view computed tomography (CT) reduces radiation dose and acquisition time and may mitigate motion artifacts. However, angular undersampling pr...
By Honglei Brinkmann, Carola-Bibiane Sch\"onlieb, Ander Biguri
arXiv:2606. 16212v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sparse-view CT reduces radiation dose and scanning time by acquiring fewer projection views, but angular undersampling makes reconstruction severely ill-posed, causing streak artifacts, structural blurring, and loss of fine details.
By Jigang Duan, Jiayi Wang, Heran Wang, Ping Yang, Genwei Ma, Xing Zhao
The study explores task‑aware projection selection for predicting hemodynamics from sparse‑view CT angiography. Using synthetic CTA data and a Fourier neural operator, the authors compare fixed sampling schemes with three optimal selection methods—Gumbel‑Softmax, Soft top‑K, and an agentic AI selector—finding that the agentic and Soft top‑K approaches yield the lowest errors for spatially resolved wall shear stress, especially under extreme sparsity. The analysis shows that task‑optimal masks differ markedly from those optimal for image reconstruction, highlighting a new direction for designing sparse acquisitions around downstream physical quantities.
By Mahmoud Elhadidy, Roshan M. D'Souza, Amirhossein Arzani
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
arXiv:2608.23206v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We study spherical occupancy profiles-the ray-wise occupancy probability profiles P(r) = T(r) o(r) distilled from multi-view 3D Gaussian reconstruction...
By YiHsuan Tsai
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