Artificial Intelligence · 05.08.2026, 11:39 UTC
Dual-domain U-Nets with embedded back projection operators for motion-resolved 4D CBCT reconstruction
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| Kategorie | Artificial Intelligence |
| Quelle | arXiv cs.LG ↗ |
| Veröffentlicht | 05.08.2026 UTC |
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arXiv:2608.03430v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Four-dimensional cone beam CT (4D CBCT) is important for image-guided radiation therapy of thoracic cancers, but its use is limited by long scan times, causing high patient dose and motion/sparse-sampling artifacts. We propose a deep learning method for motion-resolved 4D CBCT reconstruction from conventional free-breathing scans, without a respiratory signal or explicit projection binning. Our CNN takes free-breathing 3D CBCT projections as input and predicts a static volume at maximum inhalation plus ten displacement vector fields (DVFs) spanning a breathing cycle. The network extends U-Net: the encoder acts on filtered projection stacks, the decoder acts in the volume domain, and skip connections are replaced with non-trainable back-projection functions at multiple resolutions to transfer features between domains. The model is trained on simulated CBCT scans and evaluated on 11 unseen simulated patients and 13 clinical free-breathing scans. Two additional models (60 s and 6 s scans) were evaluated by clinical experts on three and two scans, comparing single phases of our 4D reconstruction to reference 3D SART-TV images for tumor and esophagus visibility. Experts preferred our method for tumor visibility (59% vs. 36% no preference, 5% reference) and esophagus visibility (47% vs. 42%, 11%). On simulated data, image quality matched SART-TV (mean RMSE: -1.19 HU, PSNR: +0.09 dB, SSIM: -0.009) while enabling 4D reconstruction. On clinical scans, our method showed sharper dynamic structures (e.g., diaphragm) and fewer …