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US 12,651,392 · App. 18/238,605 · Granted Jun 9, 2026

Stationary multi-source AI-powered tomography (SMART) image reconstruction method and apparatus

Inventors: Ge Wang (Loudonville, NY); Weiwen Wu (Troy, NY); Yan Xi (Songjiang Qu, CN)
Assignee: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
G06T12/30G06T12/10G06T2211/412G06T2211/428G06T2211/441
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Patent No.
US 12,651,392
App. No.
18/238,605
Granted
Jun 9, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

In one embodiment, there is provided a dynamic multi-source image reconstruction apparatus. The apparatus includes a first reconstruction stage, a second reconstruction stage, and a refinement stage. The first reconstruction stage is configured to receive an input data set including a group of data frames. Each data frame corresponds to a respective time step. Each data frame includes a number of projection data sets. Each projection data set corresponds to a respective source-detector pair of a stationary multi-source tomography system. The first reconstruction stage is further configured to reconstruct a first intermediate image based, at least in part, on the group of data frames. The second reconstruction stage is configured to receive a selected data frame and to reconstruct a second intermediate image with a constraint of the first intermediate image as prior. The refinement stage is configured to refine the second intermediate image to produce a three-dimensional output image.

Claims (32)

1 . A dynamic multi-source image reconstruction apparatus, wherein the dynamic multi-source image corresponds to dynamic computed tomography (CT) imaging captured by using a plurality of source-detector pairs configured to capture projection data, the apparatus comprising:

a first reconstruction stage configured to receive an input data set comprising a group of data frames, each data frame of the group of data frames corresponding to a respective time step, each data frame comprising the group of data frames comprising a number of projection data sets, each projection data set of the number of projection data sets corresponding to a respective source-detector pair of a stationary multi-source tomography system, the first reconstruction stage further configured to reconstruct a first intermediate image based, at least in part, on the group of data frames;

a second reconstruction stage configured to receive a selected data frame from the group of data frames and to reconstruct a second intermediate image based on the selected data frame with a constraint an image space of the first intermediate image as prior; and

a refinement stage configured to refine the second intermediate image to produce a three-dimensional output image that corresponds to the dynamic multi-source image.

2 . The apparatus of claim 1 , further comprising a preprocessing stage configured to arrange at least a portion of the data frames from the group of data frames in a chronological order or an order based on image structural similarity.

3 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the first reconstruction stage, the second reconstruction stage and the refinement stage comprises a tensor dictionary.

4 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein training at least one of the first reconstruction stage, the second reconstruction stage or the refinement stage is unsupervised.

5 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the first reconstruction stage is configured to implement a compressed sensing-based reconstruction, the compressed sensing-based reconstruction accommodating a structure and an intensity of a plurality of different time frames, and wherein the refinement stage is configured to implement a deep prior refinement, the deep prior refinement facilitating removal of residual image artifacts without relying on a ground truth.

6 . The apparatus of claim 5 , wherein the deep prior refinement is performed based, at least in part, on a deep image prior determined by a deep convolutional network without a ground truth.

7 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the first reconstruction stage is configured to implement a deep prior prediction, the second reconstruction stage is configured to implement a sparsity group prior reconstruction to provide sparsity regularization, and the refinement stage is configured to implement a temporal sensing reconstruction corresponding to the respective time step of the selected data frame.

8 . A method for dynamic multi-source image reconstruction, the dynamic multi-source image corresponding to dynamic computed tomography (CT) imaging captured by using a plurality of source-detector pairs configured to capture projection data, the method comprising:

receiving, by a first reconstruction stage, an input data set comprising a group of data frames, each data frame within the group of data frames corresponding to a respective time step, each data frame within the group of data frames comprising a number of projection data sets, each projection data set within the number of projection data sets corresponding to a respective source-detector pair of a stationary multi-source tomography system;

reconstructing, by the first reconstruction stage, a first intermediate image based, at least in part, on the group of data frames;

receiving, by a second reconstruction stage, a selected data frame;

reconstructing, by the second reconstruction stage, a second intermediate image with a constraint of the first intermediate image as prior; and

refining, by a refinement stage, the second intermediate image to produce a three-dimensional output image that corresponds to the dynamic multi-source image.

9 . The method of claim 8 , further comprising arranging, by a preprocessing stage, at least a portion of the data frames from the group of data frames in a chronological order or an order based on image structural similarity.

10 . The method of claim 8 , wherein at least one of the first reconstruction stage, the second reconstruction stage and the refinement stage comprises a tensor dictionary.

11 . The method of claim 8 , wherein training at least one of the first reconstruction stage, the second reconstruction stage or the refinement stage is unsupervised.

12 . The method of claim 8 , wherein the first reconstruction stage is configured to implement a compressed sensing-based reconstruction accommodating a structure and an intensity of a plurality of different time frames, and wherein the refinement stage is configured to implement a deep prior refinement, the deep prior refinement facilitating removal of residual image artifacts without relying on ground truth.

13 . The method of claim 8 , wherein the first reconstruction stage is configured to implement a deep prior prediction, the second reconstruction stage is configured to implement a sparsity group prior reconstruction to provide sparsity regularization, and the refinement stage is configured to implement a temporal sensing reconstruction corresponding to the respective time step of the selected data frame.

14 . A system for dynamic multi-source image reconstruction, wherein the dynamic multi-source image corresponds to dynamic computed tomography (CT) imaging captured by using a plurality of source-detector pairs configured to capture projection data, the system comprising:

a computing device comprising a processor, a memory, an input/output circuitry, and a data store;

a first reconstruction stage configured to receive an input data set comprising a group of data frames, each data frame within the group of data frames corresponding to a respective time step, each data frame within the group of data frames comprising a number of projection data sets, each projection data set within the number of projection data sets corresponding to a respective source-detector pair of a stationary multi-source tomography system, the first reconstruction stage further configured to reconstruct a first intermediate image based, at least in part, on the group of data frames;

a second reconstruction stage configured to receive a selected data frame from the group of data frames and to reconstruct a second intermediate image based on the selected data frame with a constraint in an image space of the first intermediate image as prior; and

a refinement stage configured to refine the second intermediate image to produce a three-dimensional output image that corresponds to the dynamic multi-source image.

15 . The system of claim 14 , further comprising a preprocessing stage configured to arrange at least a portion of the group of data frames from the group of data frames in a chronological order or an order based on image structural similarity.

16 . The system of claim 14 , wherein at least one of the first reconstruction stage, the second reconstruction stage and the refinement stage comprises a tensor dictionary.

17 . The system of claim 14 , wherein training at least one of the first reconstruction stage, the second reconstruction stage or the refinement stage is unsupervised.

18 . The system of claim 14 , wherein the first reconstruction stage is configured to implement a compressed sensing-based reconstruction, the compressed sensing-based reconstruction accommodating a structure and an intensity of a plurality of different time frames, and wherein the refinement stage is configured to implement a deep prior refinement, the deep prior refinement facilitating removal of residual image artifacts without relying on a ground truth.

19 . The system of claims 14 , wherein the first reconstruction stage is configured to implement a deep prior prediction, the second reconstruction stage is configured to implement a sparsity group prior reconstruction to provide sparsity regularization, and the refinement stage is configured to implement a temporal sensing reconstruction corresponding to the respective time step of the selected data frame.

20 . A computer readable storage device having stored thereon instructions that when executed by one or more processors result in the following operations comprising the method according to claim 8 .

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 27, 2024
From: WANG, GE; WU, WEIWEN
To: RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE
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Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 63401216 · Aug 26, 2022
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