Deterministic Compressive Sampling for High-Quality Image Reconstruction of Ultrasound Tomography

TL;DR

This paper introduces a deterministic compressive sampling method using chaos measurements for ultrasound tomography, significantly improving image reconstruction quality and efficiency over traditional approaches.

Contribution

It proposes a novel deterministic measurement scheme with chaos measurements and L1 regularization, enhancing ultrasound image reconstruction with fewer measurements and iterations.

Findings

Normalized error reduced by approximately 90%

Half the measurements needed for same quality

Only two iterations required with the proposed method

Abstract

A well-known diagnostic imaging modality, termed ultrasound tomography, was quickly developed for the detection of very small tumors whose sizes are smaller than the wavelength of the incident pressure wave without ionizing radiation, compared to the current gold-standard X-ray mammography. Based on inverse scattering technique, ultrasound tomography uses some material properties such as sound contrast or attenuation to detect small targets. The Distorted Born Iterative Method (DBIM) based on first-order Born approximation is an efficient diffraction tomography approach. Compressed Sensing (CS) technique was applied to the detection geometry configuration of ultrasound tomography as a powerful tool for improved image reconstruction quality. However, this configuration is very difficult to implement in practice. Inspired of easier hardware implementation of deterministic CS, in this paper, we propose the chaos measurements in the detection geometry configuration and the image reconstruction process is implemented using L1 regularization. The simulation results of the proposed method have demonstrated the high performance of the proposed approach, the normalized error is approximately 90% reduced, compared to the conventional approach. Furthermore, with the same quality, we can save half of number of measurements and only use two iterations when using the proposed method.