Opto-Electronic Engineering, Volume. 52, Issue 6, 240306(2025)

Low-dose nano-CT reconstruction image denoising based on Swin Transformer and convolutional neural network

Ao Wang1,2,3, Zhen Peng3,4, Jun Wang3, Fen Tao3, Ling Zhang3, Guohao Du3, Yi Liu1、*, and Biao Deng2,3、**
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  • 1School of Optical-Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China
  • 2Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
  • 3Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201204, China
  • 4School of Microelectronics, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China
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    Synchrotron radiation-based full-field nano-computed tomography (CT) is capable of non-destructive detection of the internal 3D structure of samples with nanoscale spatial resolution, and has a wide range of applications. Conventional nano-CT requires the acquisition of numerous projection images to ensure the accuracy and high resolution of 3D reconstruction, which is not only time-consuming but also may cause radiation damage to the sample. In this study, a novel denoising network model, SwinCBD (Swin Transformer-based convolutional blind denoising), is proposed to address the challenges of nano-CT technology. The SwinCBD model is based on Swin Transformer and convolutional neural network to establish structural relation mapping between noisy images and clean images through deep learning to achieve high-quality reconstruction of low-dose nano-CT with low exposure and fewer projections. The experimental results show that the low-dose nano-CT image denoising based on the SwinCBD model improves the signal-to-noise ratio of the low-dose CT slice images (by 49.26%), and drastically reduces the nano-CT projections acquisition time under the premise of ensuring the image quality. The model will be important for improving the nano-CT temporal resolution and reducing the radiation damage of samples.

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    Ao Wang, Zhen Peng, Jun Wang, Fen Tao, Ling Zhang, Guohao Du, Yi Liu, Biao Deng. Low-dose nano-CT reconstruction image denoising based on Swin Transformer and convolutional neural network[J]. Opto-Electronic Engineering, 2025, 52(6): 240306

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    Category: Article

    Received: Dec. 25, 2024

    Accepted: Apr. 28, 2025

    Published Online: Sep. 3, 2025

    The Author Email: Yi Liu (刘一), Biao Deng (邓彪)

    DOI:10.12086/oee.2025.240306

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