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    Area of Science:

    • Medical Imaging
    • Computational Imaging
    • Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare

    Background:

    • Limited-angle computed tomography (LACT) provides benefits like improved temporal resolution and reduced radiation dose for cardiac imaging.
    • LACT reconstruction is challenged by severe artifacts stemming from truncated projections, posing an ill-posed problem.
    • Existing reconstruction methods often lack the ability to leverage valuable clinical information.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To develop and evaluate a novel two-stage diffusion framework for enhanced LACT image reconstruction.
    • To investigate the impact of structured clinical metadata on improving reconstruction fidelity and reducing artifacts in LACT.
    • To address the inherent ill-posedness of LACT reconstruction through metadata-guided deep learning.

    Main Methods:

    • A two-stage diffusion model was proposed, utilizing a transformer-based approach.
    • The first stage generates coarse anatomical priors from noise, conditioned solely on metadata (acquisition parameters, demographics, diagnostic impressions).
    • The second stage refines images by integrating the coarse prior and metadata, with physics-based data consistency enforced via an ADMM module at each step.

    Main Results:

    • The proposed metadata-guided framework significantly improved reconstruction fidelity compared to metadata-free methods.
    • Superior performance was observed in metrics such as SSIM, PSNR, nMI, and PCC on both synthetic and real cardiac CT datasets.
    • Ablation studies confirmed complementary benefits from different metadata types, especially diagnostic and demographic priors under limited-angle conditions.

    Conclusions:

    • Structured clinical metadata plays a crucial role in enhancing LACT reconstruction quality and efficiency.
    • The proposed two-stage diffusion framework effectively leverages metadata to overcome LACT's inherent limitations.
    • This work supports the integration of clinical metadata into future metadata-guided medical imaging frameworks for improved diagnostic capabilities.