HDD-Net: Haar Dual Domain Network for Ring Artifacts Correction

Abstract

Ring artifacts are common artifacts in X-ray Computed Tomography (XCT) scans and have a significant impact on subsequent feature/phase extractions due to the small grayscale gradients in XCT volume data of bulk materials. This paper proposes the Haar Dual Domain Network for correcting ring artifacts. By utilizing the Haar wavelet decomposition on images containing ring artifacts in both the image and projection domains, the ring artifacts are preliminarily separated, facilitating their removal by neural networks while preserving microstructure features such as low-contrast phase boundaries. By constructing a feature fusion network, the information from both 2D slices and 3D projection volume data has been fully integrated to eliminate ring artifacts while preserving the edges of every feature. The effectiveness of the Haar wavelet transform and fusion network has been validated by ablation experiments, proving the application of HDD-Net to large volume of XCT data.