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Systematic Review on Learning-based Spectral CT

Medical Physics 2025-03-18 v9 Image and Video Processing

Abstract

Spectral computed tomography (CT) has recently emerged as an advanced version of medical CT and significantly improves conventional (single-energy) CT. Spectral CT has two main forms: dual-energy computed tomography (DECT) and photon-counting computed tomography (PCCT), which offer image improvement, material decomposition, and feature quantification relative to conventional CT. However, the inherent challenges of spectral CT, evidenced by data and image artifacts, remain a bottleneck for clinical applications. To address these problems, machine learning techniques have been widely applied to spectral CT. In this review, we present the state-of-the-art data-driven techniques for spectral CT.

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@article{arxiv.2304.07588,
  title  = {Systematic Review on Learning-based Spectral CT},
  author = {Alexandre Bousse and Venkata Sai Sundar Kandarpa and Simon Rit and Alessandro Perelli and Mengzhou Li and Guobao Wang and Jian Zhou and Ge Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.07588},
  year   = {2025}
}

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26 pages, 5 figures

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