A quality-checked and physics-constrained deep learning method to estimate material basis images from single-kV contrast-enhanced chest CT scans.

Journal: Medical physics
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Single-kV CT imaging is one of the primary imaging methods in radiology practices. However, it does not provide material basis images for some subtle lesion characterization tasks in clinical diagnosis.

Authors

  • Yinsheng Li
  • Xin Tie
    The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China.
  • Ke Li
    School of Ideological and Political Education, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai, China.
  • Ran Zhang
    Jiangsu Province Key Laboratory of Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210009, China.
  • Zhihua Qi
    From the Departments of Medical Physics (R.Z., X.T., C.Z., D.G., J.W.G., K.L., S.B.R., G.H.C.) and Radiology (M.L.S., J.W.G., K.L., S.B.R., G.H.C.), University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, 1111 Highland Ave, Madison, WI 53705; and Department of Radiology, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, Mich (Z.Q., N.B.B., T.K.S., J.D.N,).
  • Adam Budde
    Department of Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
  • Thomas M Grist
    Departments of Radiology, Medical Physics, and Biomedical Engineering, The University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA.
  • Guang-Hong Chen