EVALUATION AND COMPARISON OF TWO DEEP-LEARNING STRATEGIES FOR ON-LINE X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY
Résumé
X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) has been increasingly
used in many industrial domains for its unique capability of con-
trolling both the integrity and dimensional conformity of parts.
Still, it fails to be adopted as a standard technique for on-line mon-
itoring due to its excessive cost in terms of acquisition time. The
reduction of the number of projections, leading to the so-called
sparse-view CT strategy, while maintaining a sufficient recon-
struction quality is therefore one of the main challenges in this
field. This work aims to evaluate and compare the performances
of two deep learning strategies for the sparse-view reconstruction
problem. As such, we propose an extensive study of these meth-
ods, both in terms of data regime and angular sparsity during
training. The two strategies present quantitative improvements
over a classical FBP/FDK approach with a PSNR improvement
varying between 11 and 16 dB (depending on the angular spar-
sity) ; showing that efficient CT inspection can be performed from
only few dozens of images