arXiv AI

Extremely Sparse-View Computed Tomography from 2D Projections via Pose-Aware Diffusion Priors

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.

arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 3

Conditional Diffusion Posterior Alignment for Sparse-View CT Reconstruction

The paper introduces Conditional Diffusion Posterior Alignment (CDPA), a method that scales diffusion-based sparse‑view CT reconstruction to large 3D volumes by conditioning a 2D U‑Net diffusion model on an initial 3D reconstruction and enforcing data‑consistency alignment. CDPA addresses high memory demands, limited 3D training data, and slice‑wise inconsistencies, achieving state‑of‑the‑art performance on synthetic and real Cone Beam CT data. The authors also demonstrate that the same approach improves fast denoising U‑Nets, delivering near‑diffusion quality at a fraction of the computational cost.

By Luis Barba, Johannes Kirschner, Benjamin Bejar
arXiv AI
Jun 16

LUCID: Learned Undersampling-Adaptive Consistency-Guided Inference with Deterministic Flow Matching for Sparse-View CT Reconstruction

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
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
Aug 18

CG-GLORE: A Conjugate Gradient-Based Global-Local Regularization Network for Sparse-View CT Reconstruction

arXiv:2608. 15246v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sparse-view computed tomography (CT) reduces radiation dose by acquiring fewer projection views, but the resulting inverse problem is highly ill-posed and often produces severe streak artifacts.

By Tran Xuan Hieu Le, Doanh C. Bui, Vu Trung Duong Le, Hoai Luan Pham, Khang Nguyen, Mai K. Nguyen, Tu Bao Ho, Yasuhiko Nakashima
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 25

Toward a Foundation Plug-and-Play Prior for Computed Tomography Reconstruction via a Multimodal Diffusion Model

The paper proposes a single diffusion model trained across multiple imaging domains to act as a reusable prior for computed tomography (CT) reconstruction. By keeping the model frozen, it is applied to three distinct datasets—flaw analysis in additively manufactured metal parts using cone‑beam X‑ray CT, and concrete microstructure imaging with parallel‑beam neutron CT—each differing in modality, geometry, material, and degradation. In all cases, the method outperforms analytic reconstructions, demonstrating its potential as a foundation plug‑and‑play prior for heterogeneous CT problems.

By Haley Duba-Sullivan, Patxi Fernandez-Zelaia, Obaidullah Rahman, Amirkoushyar Ziabari