A Total Fractional-Order Variation Regularized Reconstruction Method for CT

Yun Chen, Baoyu Guo and Yao Lu

Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2020, vol. 2020, 1-9

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The total variation (TV) regularized reconstruction methods for computed tomography (CT) may lead to staircase effects in the reconstructed images because of using the TV regularization. This paper develops a total fractional-order variation regularized CT reconstruction method, aiming at overcoming the weakness of the reconstruction methods based on the TV. Specifically, we propose an optimization model for CT reconstruction, including a fidelity term, a regularization term, and a constraint term. Here, the regularization is a total fractional-order variation arising from the fractional derivative of the underlying solution. To address the nondifferentiability of the resulting model, we introduce a fixed-point characterization for its solution through the proximity operators of the nondifferentiable functions. Based on the characterization, we further develop a fixed-point iterative scheme to solve the resulting model and provide convergence analysis of the developed scheme. Numerical experiments are presented to demonstrate that the developed method outperforms the TV regularized reconstruction method in terms of suppressing noise for CT reconstruction.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1155/2020/3714245

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