JSolver: Joint Spectrum Estimation and Multi-Material Decomposition from Single-Energy CT Projections
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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: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...
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.
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.
arXiv:2610.09492v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Volumetric material decomposition in multi-energy computed tomography requires a representation that organizes multiple three-dimensional material fiel...
arXiv:2602. 21987v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Low-dose CT images are essential for reducing radiation exposure in cancer screening, pediatric imaging, and longitudinal monitoring protocols, but their quality is often degraded by noise from low-dose acquisition, patient motion, or scanner limitations, affecting both clinical interpretation and downstream analysis.